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

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

"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?

>> Ideally there should be some way to retrieve the MIME structure of
>> an article, and then make Gnus chose which MIME parts to retrieve.
>
> I'll take a look at that stuff.  Unfortunately the other backends
> don't support this, so it's less useful than a line count IMO
> (although it can make the Gnus IMAP experience much better).

Sure.