From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71039 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Partial article download Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:38:18 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87eicqn0dh.fsf@dod.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284849616 19692 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 22:40:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:40:16 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M19412@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Sep 19 00:40:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox64t-0003XE-0g for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:40:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox64o-0004J5-Vl; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox64n-0004Is-LJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:40:09 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox64j-00087O-Dj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:40:09 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ox64i-0008K6-00 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:40:04 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox64i-0003T7-3t for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:40:04 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.200.46.getinternet.no ([84.208.200.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:40:04 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.200.46.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:40:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.200.46.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Nj18yMJmT7AJ8vUgB+RABzBPd0M= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71039 Archived-At: >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > 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.