Re: [Evolution] Comments and questions on the Evolution mailer

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 01:41 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 23:56 +0100, guenther wrote:
>
> > > > > 1. Is it possible to remove attachments, to save disk space?
> > > > no 
> > > Is this hard to implement? In Emacs VM the removed attachement name
> > > remains in the original mail. 
> >
> > We already had this discussion in the past. IIRC removing attachments is
> > considered "evil", cause it alters the original (received) mail and
> > therefore isn't the original one any longer. Which effectively means,
> > the Message-Id must not stay the same...
>
> In my opinion this is not freedom, at least not in the GNU sense... 

You don't understand GNU and it's freedom.

What you are talking about is "free beer". You want a feature, so others
should code it for you. You just want to use it -- for free.

Free Software is about free speech, not free beer. You got the code. You
may change it. *That* is freedom. You want a feature? Go for it, do it
yourself. You are free to to it.

...guenther


> Of course you should have the freedom to choose to remove/not to remove
> your attachments. This is GNU/Linux not M$S... OK, if you consider
> removing attachments evil, why not just change the mail ID and name the
> deleteted attachments by name as Emacs VM, if you are picky? 


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