Re: fetch only a portion of an article? (nnimap mainly)

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

"Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Mon, 07 Mar 2005, jas@extundo.com wrote:
>
>> "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005, jas@extundo.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> IMAP support partial retrieval (byte counts), and even retrieval based
>>>> on the selected MIME structures (i.e., retrieve entire message except
>>>> one big attachment).  I think the problem may be in designing the back
>>>> end interface properly, so it is flexible enough.  
>>>
>>> Can you write the nnimap function to get N bytes with an extra
>>> parameter (you can merge it with nnimap-request-article-part or not,
>>> up to you)?
>> 
>> I can try.  Two parameters, right?  The start offset, and the
>> length?
>
> I can't imagine a reason to need an offset other than 0, but sure :)

Chunked downloading?  Another feature request has been to cancel
downloading huge attachments.  Right now, this is not possible.  If
the attachment is downloaded in 1MB parts, C-g would cancel the
operation faster.

> I'll watch for the CVS commit.

Don't hold your breath, but I'll try to get around to it.