From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43611 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap and not loading attachments Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:05:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2nk7t5mbjx.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014415806 19735 195.204.10.66 (22 Feb 2002 22:10:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Feb 2002 22:10:06 GMT Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16eNtF-000588-00; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:10:06 +0100 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 16eNpN-00014e-00; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:06:05 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:06:05 -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 QAA04096 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:05:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 349 invoked by alias); 22 Feb 2002 22:05:47 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 344 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2002 22:05:46 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Feb 2002 22:05:46 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1MM5Ogl012834; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:05:28 +0100 Original-To: ShengHuo ZHU In-Reply-To: <2nk7t5mbjx.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> (ShengHuo ZHU's message of "Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:49:54 -0500") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1.90 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43611 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43611 ShengHuo ZHU writes: >> Not currently, sorry. Supporting it would take some redesign, so it >> probably wont be implemented soon. > > How about implement it by replacing large attachments with > message/external parts. Then we can invent a private method for imap, > and add a function into mm-extern-function-alist to retrieve imap > parts. I am not familiar with IMAP protocol, so it is just a wide > thought. One problem might be that I don't think it is possible to find out how large a specific MIME part is. But that shouldn't too problematic, looking at RFC822.SIZE and replacing all MIME parts with content-disposition=attachment is probably OK. Another problem is finding someone to implement it. :-)