Re: downloading attachments on demand

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

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

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Alternatively, as I believe I have proposed before, we could add a new
>> backend interface to allow Gnus to query the MIME structure of
>> articles, and then only request partial articles, and handle the Gnus
>> cache coherency stuff in Gnus instead of in some nnimap-specific
>> command.
>
> Instead of issuing `nn*-request-article' calls, Gnus could call
> `nn*-request-structure' (or the like) which would return the MIME
> structure.  `nn*-request-structure' wouldn't do any caching -- the
> structures should be pretty small, anyway.  Then we'd need a call like
> `nn*-request-part' that would request some content.

Yup, sounds good.

> I don't think it would be difficult to implement this, but as I don't
> use imap, I'm not really equipped to do so.

I hope someone will step forward to work on this...