Re: [Evolution-hackers] Camel.Folder: Can existing remote messages be modified?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 19:15 +0530, Parthasarathi Susarla wrote:
> Yes, they can be modified. 
> And any modified messageinfos need to be populated in the 'changed uid'
> part of the changeinfo structure before a folder_changed info is called.

I'm not sure string changes would be handled in this case tho, since
these strings are supposed to be immutable.

for example, at the very elast, sorting of the message-list caches
decomposed strings for quicker comparisons.

> 
> -partha
> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 12:44 +0100, Jules Colding wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Reading the wiki I noticed:
> > 
> > "Messages can only be appended to the mailbox, and cannot be altered
> > once they are created, without appending a new message and deleting the
> > old one."
> > 
> > Does this literally mean that it is impossible to modify an existing
> > Camel.MessageInfo if a corresponding remote message is changed?
> > 
> > A relevant use case is draft messages that are temporarily stored in an
> > incomplete state and subsequently changed before being committed to the
> > transport mechanism.
> > 
> > What prevents me from altering the content of a Camel.MessageInfo
> > instance (say, the subject) and "touch" the folder summary to make the
> > change be saved to disk?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >   jules
> > 
> > 
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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