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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