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Re:Email doesn’t disappear by y4mi on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:49AM (#16800149)
but wouldn't that just depend on your mail client?

its technically possible to edit the mail body on the server side and serve the modified message under the same mail ID.

I'd wager most clients would invalidate their local copy and trust the new mail from the server, but have to admit that I've never tested such a scenario.

Re:Email doesn’t disappear by Xylakant on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @06:11AM (#16800232)
iOS and Apple mail don’t. Some servers sometimes have the issue of reusing message identifiers and both clients would show the wrong content for the mail. You’d have to force a resync of the whole Mailbox to fix this.

Also: A backup of the mailbox would be unaffected by any server-side change.

Re:Email doesn’t disappear by TheSmiddy on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @06:23AM (#16800297)
most imap clients wouldn't even notice. Once that message is downloaded there's no reason to download it again.