[MlMt] attaching free form notes to incoming messages?

[Randall Gellens]

On 3 Jan 2023, at 19:33, Rob Russell wrote:

> is there a way to add searchable free form notes to incoming messages?
>
> This is different to tagging and I didn't see anything in the manual 
> that could be repurposed for this.

On 3 Jan 2023, at 23:22, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

> in theory this could be implemented using the IMAP ANNOTATE extension 
> specified in RFC 5257 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5257.html), 
> but I don’t think many servers and clients support that.
>
> It’s an interesting idea, but unless it works inter-operably, I 
> don’t think it makes much sense to add as a feature to MailMate.

Mac Eudora had an "advanced" feature that allowed editing of received 
messages. When enabled, there was an "Edit" icon on the toolbar. 
Clicking it allowed editing of any part of the message. I used it to add 
notes in the body of messages, or to modify or add header fields. When 
done, clicking the "Edit" icon again saved the changes. Behind the 
scenes, Eudora used IMAP APPEND to upload the edited message and IMAP 
DELETE/EXPUNGE to delete the original message. Interoperable and very 
handy. I wish MailMate supported this!

--Randall