dovecot - Jan 2016 - Hypothetical feature suggestion

Hi,

Assuming one sends an E-mail which in turn requires either an update or  
correction.  The current practise is to send a subsequent E-mail with the  
new or corrected info.

I would like to suggest a small feature.  I recognise that this would  
require that the sending application would need to support this same  
feature.

The sender should be able to edit a sent email, transmit a diff of the  
original and then the receiving mail store composite the changes into a  
new email.  This could be with or without features to allow the review  
historic versions of said E-mail.

Alternatively, regular expressions could be employed to achieve this  
effect (albeit, a more complex approach).

This would provide a kind of Web 2 look on E-mail.


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Kind regards


Stephen Feyrer

* Stephen Feyrer <stephen.feyrer at
btinternet.com>:
> Hi,
> 
> Assuming one sends an E-mail which in turn requires either an update
> or correction.  The current practise is to send a subsequent E-mail
> with the new or corrected info.
> 
> I would like to suggest a small feature.  I recognise that this
> would require that the sending application would need to support
> this same feature.
> 
> The sender should be able to edit a sent email, transmit a diff of
> the original and then the receiving mail store composite the changes
> into a new email.  This could be with or without features to allow
> the review historic versions of said E-mail.
> 
> Alternatively, regular expressions could be employed to achieve this
> effect (albeit, a more complex approach).
> 
> This would provide a kind of Web 2 look on E-mail.
Sounds a lot like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Profile

p at rick

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