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

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

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> >>>>> wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry):
> 
> > This is changed with the new version of URL - I am in the midst of
> > rewriting url-news.el right now.
> 
> Will you do IMAP URLs as well?
> 	http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2192.html

I'm not sure if I know enough about the guts of 'imap.el' to hack this
together or not.  Fortunately, it is easy to add a new URL type. :)  If
anyone (simon?) wants to work on this, let me know and I'll concentrate on
getting the documentation on how to do this written tonight.  I would LOVE
to see this get written.

It should probably be distributed as part of or along with imap.el - is
this only distributed with gnus now?

> 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...:-) ).

This would kick serious %!@#%!@, I might even gripe about the ridiculously
low quotas on our imap server so I could actually use it.  (Pffft, who
needs only 135 megabytes for storing email :)

-Bill P.