From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com>, <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Not downloading attachments over IMAP
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:12:06 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111281810210.6786-100000@slipsten.extundo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafitbuj3ow.fsf@INBOX.auto.gnus.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Kai Großjohann wrote:
> >> 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. :-)
>
> Couldn't nnimap fetch the message structure and rewrite the `large'
> parts into external bodies? Isn't there a MIME type where one stores
> a reference to the real part, rather than the data itself, in the
> message?
Yup. multipart/external. But isn't it kind of gross to have the backend
change the contents of a message? I wouldn't want that. But I guess it
could be useful. Hm.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-28 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-28 15:01 Niklas Morberg
2001-11-28 15:11 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-11-28 15:49 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-28 17:12 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2001-11-29 8:23 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-29 10:41 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-11-29 10:53 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-28 18:59 ` William M. Perry
2001-11-28 17:08 ` William M. Perry
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