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

[Svante Signell <svante signell telia com>]

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 15:28 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > Why does it matter if you alter the original message and the message
> > id stays the same?
>
> Well, I just mentioned OTOH what was already discussed before. Please
> see the archives for the actual previous discussions and all the
> arguments as well as the relevant RFCs.
>
> Anything that changes the message itself effectively makes it another
> message. It's simply not the original one.
>
> This won't work in all cases anyway. Removing attachments of a signed
> message (*/Mime, including attachments) for example breaks the
> signature.

Is it possible to have separate signatures for the main text and the
attachments? If so this problem could be solved this way.

> > It is extremely useful to delete attachments.  In fact, it is
> > extremely useful to edit emails themselves, as sometimes I want to
> > annotate the original email.
>
> I can't agree here.
>
> If you want to annotate a mail, the application *must* provide some
> logic to assign your annotations to the mail and the exact part of it.
> Stored separately from the original mail. It must not edit the message.
> Annotations, not revisions.
>
> In fact, annotations and a smart way of managing and searching them
> would be a really useful feature. As long as the original mail stays the
> unaltered original mail.
>
> ...guenther

A thing just recently discovered: If I attach a file I cannot preview it
before submitting it! Isn't this a missing feature?? Perhaps one want to
check that the correct file was attached and review it's content?? Or is
this a part of the whole story about attachments, don't allow any
changes.

Svante