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>>>>> Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>:

> Yup. Another approach would be to make Gnus aware of MIME-capable
> backends, ie a backend function that fetched the MIME structure of the
> article, and then fetch the parts it want to display.

> I'm not sure which approach create the least amount of trouble with
> all caching stuff. OTOH I think the second approach is much closer to
> the Right Thing, so perhaps one should try that first.

I agree.  My vote goes to the MIME-aware backend.