From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40580 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Not downloading attachments over IMAP Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:12:06 +0100 (CET) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176109 1710 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:55:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:55:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Niklas Morberg , Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 7901 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2001 17:12:49 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2001 17:12:49 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1698G8-0005Jx-00; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:12:32 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:12:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA01022 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:12:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 7883 invoked by alias); 28 Nov 2001 17:12:19 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7878 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2001 17:12:18 -0000 Original-Received: from slipsten.extundo.com (195.42.214.241) by gnus.org with SMTP; 28 Nov 2001 17:12:18 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (jas@localhost) by slipsten.extundo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fASHC6w06795; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:12:06 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: slipsten.extundo.com: jas owned process doing -bs Original-To: Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?= In-Reply-To: Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40580 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40580 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.