Re: Not downloading attachments over IMAP

[wmperry@gnu.org (William M. Perry)]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Niklas Morberg wrote:
> >
> >> Can I tell gnus to not download attachments and just display
> >> the message? Having buttons available that downloads the
> >> attachment when I click them would be a nice bonus.
> >
> > This is not possible now, and making it work would require changes to the
> > backend interface and the cache, agent, asynchronous support and possibly
> > more stuff.  Double plus non-trivial.  Patches welcome. :-)
> 
> Couldn't nnimap fetch the message structure and rewrite the `large' parts
> into external bodies?  Isn't there a MIME type where one stores a
> reference to the real part, rather than the data itself, in the message?
> 
> If all else fails, one could augment the URL package to grok imap:// URLs
> and insert those in the message.

The URL library already supports imap:: URLs, but I don't think it
supports pulling down just bits of the message.  Simon wrote the original
proof-of-concept, maybe we should ask him to finish it. :)

-bp
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