Writing directly to email

[François LECOLIER]

Hi,
I made a little test on my machine modifying a mail using vim, when I then
read the message from my mail client it appears unchanged.

Then I used reconstruct on the mailbox and the text I added to the message
appeared in my mail client.

regards
françois

> Theoretically that would work, but unfortunately every client cdoes
> things differently - especially caching.  Therefore any "nonstandard"
> behavior is likely to cause different results for different clients.
> 
> -Brenden
> 
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 20:32, Eli Cantu wrote:
> > Quoting noel at rescommunes.ca:
> > 
> > > I was wondering if it was at all possible to pipe text form something like
> > > logging into an email file with out screwing things up for Cyrus.
> > >
> > > For example, say i have a crown tab that appends new mail.err data to the
> > > file /var/spool/imap/m/user/me/1. with just simple stdout redirection >>.
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > I just tried it on a message in my Trash directory. I appended using >>
> > 
> > I did not see the additional text I appended when I checked the message. 
I then
> > opened up the file in vi. I can see the appended text, it just doesn't show up
> > in the mail client (imp). So I added two '^M's at the bottom, just as there
> > originally was. Still no luck.  I deleted the message, and it deleted
normally.
> > 
> > hmmmm.
> > 
> > e
> > 
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