Re: nnimap URLs? (Was: What now?)

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> 
> > They could be a good start towards an infrastructure for doing delayed
> > loading of attachments in nnimap mail groups.  nnimap could replace
> > the attachment MIME parts with an URL external body message part
> > 	http://www.landfield.com/rfcs/rfc2017.html
> > and when opening the part, the contents of the URL would be fetched
> > and inserted inline (that is, if Simon hasn't already fixed this in a
> > different way and I haven't been paying attention...:-) ).
> 
> I haven't, but I'm sort-of against the idea of modifying an article in
> the backend. You'd never really now what the article actually looked
> like in the long run...

`C-u g' should of course get the entire message.  I think this would be
sufficient.

> Unless someone want to implement automatic external-body access-type
> stuff in nnimap.

They would just have to implement it in the mm-* routines I would think.
Then any message could have external body parts, and nnimap would just take
advantage of it.

-Bill P.