Dear Dinbandhu (and list), I brought up this same subject on this list a couple of years ago. I was told that this will never be put in evolution. It seems the developers have (had at that time?) a strong moral stance that one should not be able to edit incoming mail, but only preserve an exact copy of it. You can't even delete unwanted attachments easily. I surmise that this is because in certain corporate contexts, one might need unaltered copies for legal purposes. I consider that this position is ridiculous, because anybody who wants to alter an incoming email can do so with a text editor. So it is just a matter of convenience, not of principle. Those of us who would like to write notes to ourselves, who are not concerned with legal issues, should be able to do so. The proposal I made at the time, which I hoped would satisfy both kinds of users, was ignored. Let me suggest it again; I still think it is a good idea: Why not have a configuration option in evolution that could be changed only by the root user (at install time) that would either allow or disallow the editing of incoming mails? That way, those of us who administer our own systems could have this feature if we want it; those in organizations where software is centrally administered could be duly deprived of it. Naturally, this would apply to mail downloaded via POP3; I have no idea whether it is workable with IMAP. Any more discussion? George Reeke, Ph.D. Laboratory of Biological Modelling The Rockefeller University 1230 York Avenue New York, NY 10021 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 09:52 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: > If someone could reply on this below point I would be very grateful. It > really has a lot of value and I need to know how to do it. Thanks! > > ------------------ > > Is there a way in Evolution to write notes for myself in letters that > others have written to me? > > That is, letters that have come in to my in-box, can I write comments to > myself in them? For example, say someone has written a letter to me in > Spanish or some other language which is not my own. If there is a word > in their letter which I do not know and I look it up in the dictionary, > can I then write that definition into their letter as a note to myself? > That way, whenever I re-open their letter in the future to read it, I > will be able to see that I looked up the word and wrote its meaning > right there in the letter. > > So obviously, I do not refer to when one click's on "reply" to the > letter. But rather, being able to write right inside their letter > itself. > > Many thanks, > Swarup > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
