Re: gnus-summary-respool-trace for nnimap?

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
> Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com> writes:
>> Is there any way to let the regexes match against what I see in the
>> message buffer instead of the raw contents?
>
> Decoding could take a lot of time, so the current strategy is to do
> the matching on the raw message.
>
> One must avoid to decode the body -- or do you want Emacs to play a
> sound while splitting, just because the incoming message happens to
> contain a sound?  As a less extreme example, rendering text/html is
> computationally expensive.

Decoding is not displaying.  Or at least, it shouldn't be, I think.
Of course, we do still want to avoid decoding the body, just because
we're not interested in the body at this point, so it would be wasted
effort.


paul