From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62884 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: downloading attachments on demand Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:18:07 -0400 Organization: disorganization Message-ID: References: <29acarvoxa.fsf@james.hut.fi> Reply-To: sds@podval.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145287325 31459 80.91.229.2 (17 Apr 2006 15:22:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:22:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Simon Josefsson , Jim Radford Original-X-From: ding-owner+m11411@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Apr 17 17:22:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVVXx-0007vY-J1 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:21:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FVVXr-0001KI-00; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:21:43 -0500 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FVVUu-0001KD-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:18:40 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FVVUr-0007K0-Ev for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:18:40 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FVVUq-0004Es-00 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:18:36 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FVVUg-0007H7-8h for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:18:26 +0200 Original-Received: from 209.213.205.130 ([209.213.205.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:18:26 +0200 Original-Received: from sds by 209.213.205.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:18:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.213.205.130 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sQAC3mqMVg9OzETankFFImm9mQU= X-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62884 Archived-At: > * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [2006-04-12 06:38:01 +0200]: > > Jouni K Seppanen 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. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) on Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) http://www.memri.org http://www.camera.org http://www.openvotingconsortium.org http://www.mideasttruth.com http://www.iris.org.il http://pmw.org.il Is there another word for synonym?