Re: nnimap-split-download-body feature request

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, jas@extundo.com wrote:

> It is not difficult to find out if a message is "too large", but the
> problem is: what should nnimap do if the message is too large?
> Throw an error?  Return no data?  Query the user?  Return dummy data
> (that will stick around in the agent and cached forever)?  I fear a
> backend interface change would be request to properly support
> this...

Nah, just fetch the headers.  I think that's all you can reasonably
expect as a Gnus user.  Maybe fake the body with "BODY TOO LARGE" or
something like that, or add a header, but I personally think that
retrieving just the headers in such a case is a perfectly good
solution.

This reminds me: is it possible to alter a message while splitting?
The reason I ask is that I'd like to insert a header that will tell
me, later, what the eventual destination of that message should be.
This is useful when the destination is "nnml:mail" (as returned by the
registry sometimes) but we're in the nnimap server.

If I can't insert headers, I can do it with the registry.

Ted