From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45840 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Time for partial download of nnimap messages again? Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:55:59 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87sn2gzx0y.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027713395 26502 127.0.0.1 (26 Jul 2002 19:56:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:56:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17YBCT-0006tL-00 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:56:34 +0200 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 17YBCJ-0002u3-00; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:56:23 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:56:48 -0500 (CDT) 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 OAA28858 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:56:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 20625 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2002 19:56:01 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20620 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2002 19:56:01 -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; 26 Jul 2002 19:56:01 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6QJtxkd032447; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:55:59 +0200 Original-To: Steinar Bang Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 020726:sb@dod.no:65a6c819cb9ae9ff X-Hashcash: 020726:ding@gnus.org:ca836e6128436069 In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:36:14 +0200") Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45840 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45840 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Steinar Bang writes: > >> What Simon didn't like about this, IIRC, was that you changed the >> message from the original. > > What about generality? Your suggestion works for nnimap, but WIBNI > there was a scheme that could be made to work generally? Something > like an augmented backend interface. Some backends could support a > function to retrieve the MIME structure of a message. (Like a TOC, > also similar to what C-d does on a message. But a datastructure.) > Then additional functions should be added to retrieve certain parts > of a message. > > Then Gnus would look whether the backend supports the new functions. > If so, it would ask for the TOC and retrieve all text/* (or whatever) > parts, or all small parts, or all inline parts, or something, and > replaces the other ones with a button. > > Would this be more difficult to do? Depends on how general you want to make it, but I think even achieving the same amount of functionality would be more difficult. Having a more detailed analysis on what needs to be done is probably useful, like the one I did for Steinar's idea, or preferrably even more detailed.