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Has any progress been made recently in allowing Gnus to delay retrieval of
MIME parts?  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]

Or if there is an `imap' URL standard somewhere, that would be even
better.  Could the message/external-body content-type be abused this way?

I would _really_ love to switch to IMAP, but without delaying attachments,
the appeal over and above POP is not compelling. :)

-Bill P.

[1] Mailbox://mail?fetch>UID>/INBOX>13270&part=1