Re: Gnus' speed

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:20:14 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: 

SB> Partial IMAP downloads have been discussed many times on this list.
SB> Heh... you've been part of such discussions yourself...:-)
SB> 	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62566/focus=62942

3+ years ago...  How time flies!

SB> Here's my idea for a solution:
SB> 	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45714
SB> 	nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45714

Steinar originally wrote:
> A quick revisit of the idea:
>  - in the agent cache, replace the delayed parts with a
>    message/external-body URL part
> 	<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2017.html>
>    where the URL is an IMAP URL:
> 	<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2192.html>
>  - when the user wishes to view or save the delayed part, it is
>    downloaded from the server, and the message/external-body is
>    replaced with the actual part

I think that's a reasonable plan.  I don't know the agent, so I can't do
the agent cache piece, and I don't know much about generating the
article buffer, but I can probably help with the IMAP interaction and
the backend modifications.

Are you interested in working on this?  Is anyone else?

Ted