Re: [Evolution] How to write in letters that have come in the In-Box

[Dinbandhu <dinbandhu sprynet com>]

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:46 -0400, George Reeke wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 09:56 +0530, ritz wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 21:34 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 21:11 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would support a facility for annotations (or memos if you prefer) as
> > > > long as it can be done in a cross-platform way.
>
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> Memos and annotations won't do it.  I want to be able to delete unwanted
> attachments, delete html copies of plain text email, delete earlier
> contributions to a thread that I have already stored in the same folder,
> etc. etc.
>
> I appreciate that this can only reasonably be done with downloaded
> emails ala POP3 as O'Callaghan already noted.  Since having this
> facility is a key reason for continuing to use POP3,  I respectfully
> disagree with those posters who believe the same facilities should
> be supported for all server protocols.

I must also respectfully agree with George Reeke here. For those of us
using POP3, the ability to fully manage and have flexibility with the
mail is a major reason for the POP3 choice. I'm not sure whether having
annotations would represent a step in the right direction or create
obstacles to the real change which would be needed-- that is, to have
full flexibility for the editing of incoming mail.

Swarup