[MlMt] attaching free form notes to incoming messages?

[Henry Seiden]

Interesting. I haven’t seen or heard about Eudora in so many years, 
though I do remember it fondly (along with its many other features)! 
Thanks for the remembrances, fellows.

Respectfully,

Henry Seiden
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On 4 Jan 2023, at 9:47, John Cooper wrote:

> davecc0000 wrote (at 5:24 AM on Wednesday, January 4, 2023):
>
>> I, also, would like this feature added to MailMate.
>>
>> Dave
>
> Me too! That level of control is what made Eudora so beloved to me and 
> others.
>
>>>> 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
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