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IMAP Email client that allows editing of messages
teraiten | Mar 11 2006
I've set up my own little IMAP server where all my mail messages end up (from many different addresses). Through Mozilla Thunderbird I access my messages from both my PC at home, and my laptop at school. Because it's IMAP, all messages are stay on the server and I can work with exactly the same mails no matter where I am. If I want, I could install a spiffy web-based interface too. I've started doing some basic GTD with it too. IMAP is definatly showing its advantages here; I need to work with two different computers each day, and it's nice to have all my tasks available everywhere. However, I'm getting annoyed by a major shortcoming in Firefox, I can't edit any message. There's a workaround by moving the message to the drafts folder, editing it, saving it, and moving it back, but this breaks a few things. I did some research regarding this missing functionality: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2142938 No real practical solution. That's why I wanted to ask, anyone here know a good e-mail client that allows me to edit any message and supports IMAP properly? 7 Comments
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 ah, well, depending on your...Submitted by emory on March 12, 2006 - 8:09am.
ah, well, depending on your MTA there is a possible work-around. if your MTA allows for delimited user*@host.domain.tld mappings of mailboxes, you could forward/bounce messages to: teraiten+todo@domain.tld and make your notes there. then you could have a server-side or even client-side rule that moves things that are To: teraiten+todo into a folder called ToDo. I dare say it would be even easier. In pine/mail/thunderbird you'd just {f}orward the message, change the subject, and add your notes. You can opt to forward the headers too so you can search on it later. Or, since you could add 'metadata' in your forward in the form of tags, keywords, project, client, customer, peer, whatever, it may not be required. » POSTED IN:
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