From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40574 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Not downloading attachments over IMAP Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:49:35 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176104 1680 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:55:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Niklas Morberg , Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 6401 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2001 15:51:52 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2001 15:51:52 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1696yf-0003zE-00; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:50:25 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:50:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA00546 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:50:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 6375 invoked by alias); 28 Nov 2001 15:50:09 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6370 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2001 15:50:08 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 28 Nov 2001 15:50:08 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id fASFnf619825; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:49:41 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id QAA21419; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:49:36 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 6C374203A; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:49:35 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Simon Josefsson In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:11:34 +0100 (CET)") Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40574 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40574 Simon Josefsson writes: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Niklas Morberg wrote: > >> Can I tell gnus to not download attachments and just display >> the message? Having buttons available that downloads the >> attachment when I click them would be a nice bonus. > > This is not possible now, and making it work would require changes to the > backend interface and the cache, agent, asynchronous support and possibly > more stuff. Double plus non-trivial. Patches welcome. :-) Couldn't nnimap fetch the message structure and rewrite the `large' parts into external bodies? Isn't there a MIME type where one stores a reference to the real part, rather than the data itself, in the message? If all else fails, one could augment the URL package to grok imap:// URLs and insert those in the message. kai -- Simplification good! Oversimplification bad! (Larry Wall)