Quoting Louis-David Mitterrand vindex+lists-dovecot@apartia.org:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:25:49PM +0100, Oliver Eales wrote:
Am 13.03.2010 um 11:26 schrieb Louis-David Mitterrand:
Hi,
Does dovecot support in-place attachement deletion?
Mutt currently uploads a new message after deleting attachements. Is there a better, imap way to do it?
Hello, no, this is the IMAP way to do it. Via IMAP you can't modify a message, only its attributes (flags)
On the mutt-dev list someone pointed out the APPEND spec from the IMAP4rev1 standard:
If a date-time is specified, the internal date SHOULD be set in the resulting message; otherwise, the internal date of the resulting message is set to the current date and time by default.
Does dovecot honor a date-time passed during APPEND?
The better solution is the CATENATE (RFC 4469) extension, if
available. An example directly from Appendix A of that RFC:
Example 3: The following example demonstrates how the CATENATE
extension can be used to strip attachments. Below, a PowerPoint
attachment was replaced by a small text part explaining that the
attachment was stripped.
C: A003 APPEND Drafts (\Seen \Draft $MDNSent) CATENATE
(URL "/Drafts;UIDVALIDITY=385759045/;UID=21/;section=HEADER"
TEXT {42}
S: + Ready for literal data
C:
C: --------------030308070208000400050903
C: URL "/Drafts;UIDVALIDITY=385759045/;UID=21/;section=1.MIME"
URL "/Drafts;UIDVALIDITY=385759045/;UID=21/;section=1" TEXT {255}
S: + Ready for literal data
C:
C: --------------030308070208000400050903
C: Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
C: Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
C:
C: This body part contained a Power Point presentation that was
C: deleted upon your request.
C: --------------030308070208000400050903--
C: )
S: A003 OK append Completedmichael