From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
Subject: Re: IMAP and large attachments
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:13:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874rj8743t.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u8z8nk8ph.fsf@axis.com>
>>>>> Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com>:
> Jody Klymak <jklymak@coas.oregonstate.edu> writes:
>> Is it possible in gnus?
> Not currently, no. Apparently (and this is way over my head)
> supporting such behaviour would be difficult to implement.
> See e.g.
> <http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/200202/msg00405.html>
> for more details.
Actually, what's touched on in the referred article, is the easy way
to implement this. The difficult way to implement this, is a server
backend redesign.
The basic idea is have the nnimap back end replace all attachments
with message/external-body parts, containing IMAP URLs that can be
used to fetch them:
<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2017.html>
<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2192.html>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-22 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-19 22:03 Jody Klymak
2002-03-20 7:19 ` Niklas Morberg
2002-03-22 20:13 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
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