[Bug 17513] kmail remove attachments from mail

[Bernhard E.Reiter]

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------- Additional Comments From bernhard intevation de  2007-04-12 11:30 -------
re #90:
The argument I saw from #9 was: 
Modifying email would make it harder to use them as evidence. 
Our position is: That is minor as the user can use any other client
to modify an email on his computer or IMAP server (in the case of Kolab).
So real evidence would only be possible when you have signed archives
and signed by an external party as well.

Also we want to only allow the deletion of an attachment, but keep
the name of the attachment (and maybe a hash) in there as well.
So it would be possible to reconstruct the email if you like
and it is pretty obvious what change was make if you trust the user only to have used KMail/Kontact.

Backup space is pretty expensive, so in quite a few cases I even decide
to break the signature when deleting an attachment. (I use mutt to do this
where you can arbitrarily change an email.)