Re: [Evolution] How to annotate a received e-mail?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 17:35 -0800, Raul Acevedo wrote:
> It's been mentioned three times in the five months I've been on this
> list, but has been shot down by the developers because it is apparently
> a Bad Thing to modify the original email.  It's been mentioned even more
> times if you count being able to delete attachments.
Hmm, it has?  I haven't seen it.

The first (and any following) solution i would use for annotation woudln't involve altering the message content at all.  IT has nothing whatsoever to do with removing attachments either.  I think you're talking about something different.
> However several email clients do this, and I haven't seen mention of
> what exactly would break if evolution would do it.  The sense I get is
> that nothing would break, they're just trying to stick to a strict
> RFC-type correlation between message id and original email.  ("If you
> modify the email, it needs a new message id.")
If you're talking about modifying messages, uh, it can't be done without deleting the old message and adding a new altered one.  This is the abstraction our libraries use.  IT isn't about 'breaking' anything, it just isn't possible to do any other way.
> Unfortunately there's no way to search the archives, so I don't know the
> details of the original argument against modifying emails.  Could a
> knowledgeable person summarize the argument against doing it?
Google.
> Raul
>
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 20:08 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > nope, tho I believe it has been requested in bugzilla in the past
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 18:14 -0500, R. Drew Davis wrote:
> > > Back in my days of using MH for mail ("the good old days" :-), one of my
> > > habits was to annotate a mail asking me a question with a dated note
> > > about what I'd done about it or what I was waiting on to be able to
> > > close out the item.    It was easy with vi to just jot a note in []'s at
> > > the end of the message.    I'd typically start it with the date and end
> > > it with my initials.    Is there a way in Evolution to add annotations
> > > to my copy of a received e-mail in its folder?
> > > 
> > > Drew
> > > 
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