>>> "UB" == Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Hi 

> I am using GNU emacs master (commit 42ba6200af10c00c72)
> and received a message with a 23 MB attachment.

> It took quite some time to open this message. Is there any possibility,
> just to ignore the attachment at first, read the message, and download
> the attachment if needed? 


> I can't find any variable which could possibly do this.

The solution seems to be to set 
(setq nnimap-fetch-partial-articles t)

Like this 

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '(
      	(nnimap "myserver"
        (nnimap-fetch-partial-articles t))))


Uwe Brauer