Comments inline.
Joe Cheng wrote:
Serge Knystautas wrote:
MIME4J is nowhere ready to be a replacement. It is a read-only API
last I checked.
Noel, you said on server-users@ that you thought IMAP allowed
modification of Messages (using your definition). To my knowledge,
this is not the case (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). What
IMAP does allow you to do is add new messages to a mailbox, which POP
of course does not. On already existing messages you can only change
flags which fall under Mail, not Message.
You are correct. With the APPEND command, you can add new messages to a
specific Mailbox. The way some systems make it look like changing a
message is by APPEND'ing a message with all the same data including
changes, and deleting the previous one.
I have been thinking of using this feature to create an IMAPNotes
program that would allow storage of Notes with Edit/Delete/New
functionality using IMAP as the store. JavaMail does make this feature
look as though it is editing the same message though so I can understand
the confusion.
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