From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43971 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP and large attachments Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:13:42 +0100 Organization: Denizens of Doom, Norway Chapter Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <874rj8743t.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016828101 4527 127.0.0.1 (22 Mar 2002 20:15:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:15:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16oVRE-0001Al-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:15:01 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16oVQK-0001Rt-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:14:04 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:14:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA14363 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:13:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 29114 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2002 20:13:46 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29109 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2002 20:13:45 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Mar 2002 20:13:45 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16oVWn-0002IX-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:20:45 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: b48sfn.cm.chello.no Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1016828445 8836 213.46.211.96 (22 Mar 2002 20:20:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Mar 2002 20:20:45 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i386-debian-linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UUh1eKpMglfDr50ZgS5PnS1GApc= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43971 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43971 >>>>> Niklas Morberg : > Jody Klymak 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. > > 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: