Re: Indicate partial articles (nnimap-fetch-partial-articles)

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Hi again,

now I'm totally stunned.  Is it possible that Gnus already insert mime
buttons for parts that are not downloaded?

I wrote a mail to myself containing some text, a PDF attachment, a jpeg
image, and a vcard (text/vcf).  nnimap-fetch-partial-articles is set to
"\\(text\\|image\\)/".

The article buffer showed the text, a button [2. application/pdf]...,
the image, and the vcard contents (including a button).  Hitting RET on
the PDF button fires up my PDF viewer which errors that it couldn't open
the PDF somewhere in /tmp/.

Now I hit `A C', and the mime button of the PDF part contains also the
description text, and the PDF can be opened as usual.

The image is not displayed anymore, but there is a mime button that
toggles its display and also shows the description text.

Ditto for the VCF attachment.

So for this mail, I cannot miss that it was downloaded only partially.

But now I've found another mail whose body contents is only

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
WARNING: contains banned part
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

when fetched partially.  After hitting `A C', the contents are

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
WARNING: contains banned part
[2. Original message --- message/rfc822; message.txt]...
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So here, I have no indication that the mail was incomplete... :-(

Bye,
Tassilo
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