IMAP: How to disable download of big attachements ?

IMAP: How to disable download of big attachements ?

[parozusa]

Hi,

I posted this to de.comm.software.gnus and gnu.emacs.gnus already but
didn't get an answer:

  Is it possible to have a quick look at the body of a small message
  residing on the IMAP server without downloading the possibly large
  attachement at the same time ?

  GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of 2003-03-28 on buffy

  Gnus v5.10.6

Thanks

Martin

Re: IMAP: How to disable download of big attachements ?

[Simon Josefsson]

parozusa@web.de writes:

> Hi,
>
> I posted this to de.comm.software.gnus and gnu.emacs.gnus already but
> didn't get an answer:
>
>   Is it possible to have a quick look at the body of a small message
>   residing on the IMAP server without downloading the possibly large
>   attachement at the same time ?

As far as I know, no, not without changing how Gnus works today.

Re: IMAP: How to disable download of big attachements ?

[David Abrahams]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> parozusa@web.de writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I posted this to de.comm.software.gnus and gnu.emacs.gnus already but
>> didn't get an answer:
>>
>>   Is it possible to have a quick look at the body of a small message
>>   residing on the IMAP server without downloading the possibly large
>>   attachement at the same time ?
>
> As far as I know, no, not without changing how Gnus works today.

In that case, is it possible to speed up Gnus' downloading of
attachments to IMAP messages?  If I get an attachment of several
megabytes I typically need to cancel the message download (and go
unplugged and quit Gnus because otherwise it will try to resume the
download the next time I do anything) and download the message with
another program because nnimap processes downloads so slowly.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com

Re: IMAP: How to disable download of big attachements ?

[martin]

"DA" == David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
 DA> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
 DA> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:22:36 -0500

8<--------------------------------------------------------------------

 DA> If I get an attachment of several megabytes I typically need to
 DA> cancel the message download (and go unplugged and quit Gnus
 DA> because otherwise it will try to resume the download the next
 DA> time I do anything)

"HM" == Heinrich Moser <usenet@heinzi.at> writes:
 HM> Newsgroups: de.comm.software.gnus
 HM> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:50:42 +0100

Freely translated from German:

  If you interrupt the download by  C-g and kill the buffer ' *nnimap...'
  you don't need to restart gnus, it suffices to restart the imap process.

Martin
-- 
parozusa at web dot de