From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52168 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Zusman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP partial fetch Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 22:46:43 -0400 Organization: FreeBSD/Linux Hippopotamus Preserve Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <3cjwsq5o.fsf@asfast.com> References: <874r4ckhwg.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051929949 26991 80.91.224.249 (3 May 2003 02:45:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 02:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M711@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 03 04:45:47 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Bn23-000719-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 04:45:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19Bn37-0004eH-00; Fri, 02 May 2003 21:46:53 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19Bn30-0004eB-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 02 May 2003 21:46:46 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 66457 invoked by alias); 3 May 2003 02:46:45 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 66452 invoked from network); 3 May 2003 02:46:45 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO asfast.net) (wycorl@216.182.10.250) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 3 May 2003 02:46:45 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 0) by asfast.net with local; Fri, 02 May 2003 22:46:43 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "!ga1s|?LNLE3MeeeEYs(%LIl9q[xV9!j4#xf4!**BFW_ihlOb;:Slb>)vy>CJM (Zack Weinberg's message of "Fri, 02 May 2003 17:12:15 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52168 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52168 Zack Weinberg writes: > Frank Schmitt writes: > >> Hello >> >> Now that Oort is released, I'd like to throw some ideas in, which >> features I as (primarily) a user would like to see in the next Gnus: > ... > > [ ... partial imap fetch descriibed ... ] > > [ ... ] > for messages where the user does want to look at the attachment, they > are probably more willing to accept a lengthy download delay when they > ask for the attachment to be saved, than when they ask to view the > message. > > [ ... ] I enthusiastically add my vote for this proposal, with the following refinement: a group-specific variable could control whether these attachments get downloaded as part of the entire message (as is done now), or only when the user wants to see them. This way, different groups could be configured differently in this regard. A configurable, system-wide default setting could take effect if the group-specific variable isn't set. I think a cool related feature would be to download the IMAP4 BODYSTRUCTURE output of a message (in some suitably formatted manner) along with the headers. This way, the user could view the structure of any message from the Summary buffer, and via a dialog, could optionally request a subset of the parts to be actually downloaded. A keystroke in the Summary buffer could toggle the display of this structure for any given message. -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com