On 13 Dec 2013, at 7:52, Marc ARC wrote:
@Thomas: No, there is no way to change the subject or any other part of
a received message. You can only alter tags (IMAP keywords). IMAP (or
emails in general) are not really designed for allowing such changes.
For example, for IMAP it would require re-uploading the entire message
to the server (also if it has a 20MB attachment). If I ever implemented
anything to support such changes then I would probably do it by placing
the changes in some kind of meta-message, but this would not work well
with other email clients.
Could a redirect with the addition of additional info be a solution.
When I implement redirection then I don't think I would allow changing
the content. The standard does not even support a change of the subject
line: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6.6
I could perhaps allow a `Resent-Subject` (and/ore `Resent-Note`) header
given that I warn the user that most email clients are unlikely to
display this value. (This would still not be very efficient with regard
to re-uploading to the server, but at least it would be an explicit
change of the message.)
@ Benny: we have a similar situation and this is why i requested the
possibility to be able to redirect a mail, I know your vision on
changing mail contents and understand the risks/issues, but then again
if other mail clients allow it . . .
If my general measure of correctness was other mail clients...
I'll give it some more thought.
--
Benny
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