From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45716 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Time for partial download of nnimap messages again? Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:36:14 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87sn2gzx0y.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027021087 3732 127.0.0.1 (18 Jul 2002 19:38:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 19:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17VH6D-0000y4-00 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:38:05 +0200 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 17VH5G-0000gi-00; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:37:06 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:37:30 -0500 (CDT) 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 OAA11884 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:37:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 5774 invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2002 19:36:48 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5769 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2002 19:36:48 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 18 Jul 2002 19:36:48 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g6IJaKb09212; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:36:20 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id VAA01861; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:36:15 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 112B33B221; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:36:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Steinar Bang Mail-Followup-To: Steinar Bang , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87sn2gzx0y.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:55:09 +0200") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45716 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45716 Steinar Bang 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 -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)