Re: Selective mailpart deletion in IMAP.

There is no plan to support this functionality with a specific extension 
in IMAP.  It is easy enough for client applications to do without such an 
extension.

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Dister Kemp wrote:
> Thanks Mark for the quick clarifications.
> I would think this is one of the promising features supported by
> Thunderbird and Outlook.
> I will look into Alpine. I thought the next step in this direction would be for
> the server side mail protocol itself to support it. Is there a plan on this?
>
> Thanks
> Dister
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Mark Crispin <mrc <at> washington.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Dister Kemp wrote:
>>
>>>     I was wondering if IMAP server (the protocol) supports selective
>> mailpart deletion instead of deleting the entire message.
>>>
>>
>>  No.  Messages are static.  The only way to "delete a part of a message" is
>> to make a new copy of the message with the desired part deleted, then delete
>> and expunge the original.
>>
>>
>>
>>> If so, is it supported by c-client's IMAP client too?
>>>
>>
>>  No, since it is not part of IMAP.
>>
>>
>>
>>> If not, is it possible to mimic this behavior in the client side ?
>>>
>>
>>  c-client does not do this.  An application program can do so (I believe
>> that Alpine does) by fetching the message and saving a new copy that omits
>> the content that you wish deleted.
>>
>>  -- Mark --
>>
>>  http://panda.com/mrc
>>  Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
>>  Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
>>
>

-- Mark --

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