Re: Not downloading attachments over IMAP

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

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Niklas Morberg wrote:
> 
> > I'm using nnimap and quite often receive emails with
> > attachments that I don't need to see (at least not this
> > instant).
> > 
> > When gnus displays an article (email) with an attachment, it
> > will always download all attachments before the article is
> > displayed. For large attachments, this can take a while.
> > 
> > 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. :-)
> 
> A hack to not download large attachments could be written inside nnimap, 
> but it wouldn't be very flexible (and wouldn't allow you to download the 
> attachment using the normal interface at all).

Is there any way to manually put a button in the buffer?  You could then
stick an IMAP URL in there for the specific attachment, and make
activating the button fetch the correct attachment and call
mm-display-part directly.

-bp
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