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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: IMAP + MIME + pGnus...
Date: 12 Jun 1999 04:26:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zp26888w.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com's message of "23 Apr 1999 10:47:01 -0500"

wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:

> Hmmm... I guess you could have Gnus internally know nothing about the
> actual article other than the MIME handles.  Instead of
> XXX-request-article, you would have XXX-request-article-structure, and most
> backends would just have a trivial wrapper of (mm-dissect-buffer
> (XXX-request-article ...))

Hmm.  Yes.  Or the backend could just send the structure to Gnus on
nn*-request-article, and all the contents could be
message/external-body-ies.  Or something.  That would reduce a bit of
the complexity, but, er, it still won't be trivial to implement...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


  reply	other threads:[~1999-06-12  2:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-04-20 14:35 William M. Perry
1999-04-20 14:50 ` Simon Josefsson
1999-04-21  7:33   ` Steinar Bang
1999-04-23 15:47   ` William M. Perry
1999-06-12  2:26     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1999-04-21  7:32 ` Steinar Bang
1999-04-21  7:43   ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-04-22 12:59     ` Steinar Bang
1999-04-22 14:59       ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-04-22 15:51         ` Simon Josefsson

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