Re: Time for partial download of nnimap messages again?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> What Simon didn't like about this, IIRC, was that you changed the
> message from the original.

What about generality?  Your suggestion works for nnimap, but WIBNI
there was a scheme that could be made to work generally?  Something
like an augmented backend interface.  Some backends could support a
function to retrieve the MIME structure of a message.  (Like a TOC,
also similar to what C-d does on a message.  But a datastructure.)
Then additional functions should be added to retrieve certain parts
of a message.

Then Gnus would look whether the backend supports the new functions.
If so, it would ask for the TOC and retrieve all text/* (or whatever)
parts, or all small parts, or all inline parts, or something, and
replaces the other ones with a button.

Would this be more difficult to do?

A new backend could then store messages on disk like that.

kai
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