Re: downloading attachments on demand

[Sam Steingold <sds@podval.org>]

> * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <ynefv@tahf.bet> [2006-04-12 06:38:01 +0200]:
>
> Jouni K Seppanen <jks@iki.fi> writes:
>
>> From what I understand about the internal workings of Gnus, you'd have
>> to alter the backend protocol to make use of this. Instead of getting
>> a buffer filled with a message that it can parse for MIME structure,
>> the frontend would ask for some sort of a pre-parsed message object,
>> with stubs for the attachments, and only if the user wants to do
>> anything with them, would the frontend query the backend for their
>> contents.
>
> Well, nnimap could just return a valid MIME document with
> message/external-body parts, I think.  Gnus and nnimap would have to
> implement a special external-body scheme to download the parts, but
> that shouldn't be too much work...
>
> I don't use imap myself, so I'm probably not the person to implement
> this.

you are the Gnus maintainer, so you might prod nnimap.el authors into
doing this.

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