Re: Partial article download

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> Do you know that the text/plain part is always the first part
> of a message?  Wouldn't it be better to just pull down all text/plain
> parts of a message?

Hm.  Yes... when requesting the headers on group entry, I can also ask
for the article structure.  So when it comes time to request the
article, it should be easy enough to ask for all the text/plain parts.
Or perhaps all text/* parts?  Well, that can be user-configurable. 

> But whatever way you do it, partial downloading should cooperate nicely
> with the agent.

If we have a "fetch complete article" message, it could just bind the
agent thing to nil and then request it straight from the IMAP server?
Then things should Just Work.  That is, the partial articles would be
downloaded by the agent and stored.

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