Re: Partial article download

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> Since nnimap now works perfectly (or so I'll assume until the next bug
> report), perhaps it's time to think about partial article downloads.

> So, Gnus would download the message structure and the first bit

Do you know that the text/plain part is always the first part
of a message?  Wouldn't it be better to just pull down all text/plain
parts of a message?

> (if the user flipped a variable).  But would there be a new Gnus
> Summary command for "fetch complete article", or would there be
> buttons in the article and...  stuff?

The old postings I linked back to, suggested a buttons in the artile
approach, but...

> The "fetch complete article" method sounds way easier to implement.

Yes it does, doesn't it?

But whatever way you do it, partial downloading should cooperate nicely
with the agent.