On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 09:03 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
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.
yes, but you (as a recipient of the signed message) cannot control how the message (or mime parts) are signed, only the sending mailer can change that. also, it's generally a lot better to sign the entire emssage (including attachments) in one go so that the recipient knows that the whole message is untampered with. if you sign individual parts, all you know is that each individual part is untampered with (but do you know that all the parts are there? no)
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. ...guentherA 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.
based on this comment I think you're confused about the issue being discussed. the discussion is about removing attachments from messages that were sent TO YOU, not BY YOU. e.g., remove attachments from messages sitting in your Inbox vs removing attachments in the composer. to answer your question, yes, the ability to open an attachment in the composer would be a nice feature to have (and is in fact already filed in bugzilla) -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. fejj ximian com - www.novell.com
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