Mark,
Thank you very much for your helpful answers. Your assumptions about my
scenario (and my typos) were correct. One follow-up clarification in re:
permanently tracking edited posts. My requirements include interoperability
with other MUAs: I am creating a publicly-readable presentation of a m
Bill McCoy writes:
So my comment about DELETE-EXPUNGE and using timestamp or
timestamp+sender as the basis of permanent links was based on the
fact that the Outlook/Exchange model of editability does not preserve
both copies, so that option for tracking edits is not available to
me.
...
Similarly,
A couple of comments below on E2K:
> 3. Based on the above, and despite immutability of messages
> and associated UIDs at the IMAP protocol level, a compliant
> IMAP client may nevertheless choose to implement a user-level
> model of editable body content for bulletin board posts. The
> Exchang
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:38:49 -0800, Bill McCoy wrote:
> My requirements include interoperability
> with other MUAs
Good.
> Similarly, unless I'm missing
> something, searching for Message-ID as you suggested is not possible in this
> situation: the original message is gone, the edited message of
Thanks. A few additional follow-up clarifications.
Mark Crispin wrote that:
> Normally, MUA edits of a message do not change the Message-ID.
I don't know how to reconcile this comment with the language of RFC2822 as
previously discussed which specifies that a Message-ID "...pertains to
exactly o
Bill McCoy writes:
In any case my observations indicate that Outlook/Exchange 2000 does
in fact change the Message-ID whenever a message is edited, both in
the case where that message originated via "New Post in This Folder"
and was subsequently edited (with the "Revise Contents" command) and
a
Arnt Gulbrandsen writes:
> When OE has edited a message, how can you discover that an edit has taken
place?
If by "you" you mean "OE user", OE provides a "Modified" field which
although not part of the mail view by default is configurable within the UI,
this displays (and can sort by) the time o
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Bill McCoy wrote:
> > Normally, MUA edits of a message do not change the Message-ID.
> I don't know how to reconcile this comment with the language of RFC2822 as
> previously discussed which specifies that a Message-ID "...pertains to
> exactly one instantiation of a particular
