Re: downloading attachments on demand

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

Jouni K Seppanen <jks@iki.fi> writes:

> From what I understand about the internal workings of Gnus, you'd have
> to alter the backend protocol to make use of this. Instead of getting
> a buffer filled with a message that it can parse for MIME structure,
> the frontend would ask for some sort of a pre-parsed message object,
> with stubs for the attachments, and only if the user wants to do
> anything with them, would the frontend query the backend for their
> contents.

Well, nnimap could just return a valid MIME document with
message/external-body parts, I think.  Gnus and nnimap would have to
implement a special external-body scheme to download the parts, but
that shouldn't be too much work...

I don't use imap myself, so I'm probably not the person to implement
this. 

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