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On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Niklas Morberg wrote:

> I'm using nnimap and quite often receive emails with
> attachments that I don't need to see (at least not this
> instant).
> 
> When gnus displays an article (email) with an attachment, it
> will always download all attachments before the article is
> displayed. For large attachments, this can take a while.
> 
> Can I tell gnus to not download attachments and just display
> the message? Having buttons available that downloads the
> attachment when I click them would be a nice bonus.

This is not possible now, and making it work would require changes to the
backend interface and the cache, agent, asynchronous support and possibly
more stuff.  Double plus non-trivial.  Patches welcome. :-)

A hack to not download large attachments could be written inside nnimap, 
but it wouldn't be very flexible (and wouldn't allow you to download the 
attachment using the normal interface at all).