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Re: [imap5] Feature set? - was Re: Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP

Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> Sat, 18 February 2012 07:14 UTC

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the use case I'm thinking of is when you want to forward a message to someone after it was already sent to someone else.


On 17/02/2012 11:15 p.m., Jan Kundrát wrote: 
On 02/16/12 23:37, Bron Gondwana wrote:

Rarely.  I don't even know an IMAP client which supports doing that.
It's not like SMTP would disappear if you need something more complex.

Even Thunderbird supports this, although through an extension nowadays
("Redirect Mail" IIRC). Unless I'm mistaken, they used to support it
out-of-the-box in the TB 2.x series.

You're probably right that "most people" have never used it, but it's a
feature that's here for a good reason and could be useful, IMHO.

Cheers,
-jkt




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