Re: fixing the current email module

>Just to ramble a little longer, it's been argued that we should give  
>up on idempotency, but I'm not convinced.  I think people want to see  
>an email message they throw into the system come out the other end as  
>closely as possible (well, /exactly/ for well-formed messages).

I, for one, would be disappointed if we lost idempotency. If people want
a use-case, think of SpamBayes, where we read the message, do our best
to analyse it, then insert a header or two. If this mangled messages,
the email module would be nearly useless to SB.

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Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
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