From: "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: "Ding Mailing List " <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: fetch only a portion of an article? (nnimap mainly)
Date: 8 Mar 2005 10:58:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4nbr9up1si.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilusm37i7ez.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:26:44 +0100")
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005, jas@extundo.com wrote:
> "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005, jas@extundo.com wrote:
>>
>>> IMAP support partial retrieval (byte counts), and even retrieval based
>>> on the selected MIME structures (i.e., retrieve entire message except
>>> one big attachment). I think the problem may be in designing the back
>>> end interface properly, so it is flexible enough.
>>
>> Can you write the nnimap function to get N bytes with an extra
>> parameter (you can merge it with nnimap-request-article-part or not,
>> up to you)?
>
> I can try. Two parameters, right? The start offset, and the
> length?
I can't imagine a reason to need an offset other than 0, but sure :)
I'll watch for the CVS commit.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-08 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-04 19:52 Ted Zlatanov
2005-03-04 22:51 ` Simon Josefsson
2005-03-07 18:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2005-03-07 19:26 ` Simon Josefsson
2005-03-08 15:58 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2005-03-08 17:54 ` Simon Josefsson
2005-03-22 19:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
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