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From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: IMAP + MIME + pGnus...
Date: 23 Apr 1999 10:47:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86btgfl4p6.fsf@kramer.bp.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "20 Apr 1999 16:50:46 +0200"

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
> 
> > I was just pondering how to do this and thought that it would not be
> > too hard to have nnimap spoof the delayed portions with a content
> > type of application/x-gnus-external-imap with a location header that
> > looks like a Netscape IMAP-ish URL.[1]
> 
> Yup. Another approach would be to make Gnus aware of MIME-capable
> backends, ie a backend function that fetched the MIME structure of the
> article, and then fetch the parts it want to display.

Hmmm... I guess you could have Gnus internally know nothing about the
actual article other than the MIME handles.  Instead of
XXX-request-article, you would have XXX-request-article-structure, and most
backends would just have a trivial wrapper of (mm-dissect-buffer
(XXX-request-article ...))

Ponder, ponder, ponder.

-bp


  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-04-23 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-04-20 14:35 William M. Perry
1999-04-20 14:50 ` Simon Josefsson
1999-04-21  7:33   ` Steinar Bang
1999-04-23 15:47   ` William M. Perry [this message]
1999-06-12  2:26     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-04-21  7:32 ` Steinar Bang
1999-04-21  7:43   ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-04-22 12:59     ` Steinar Bang
1999-04-22 14:59       ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-04-22 15:51         ` Simon Josefsson

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