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>>>>> wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry):

> Has any progress been made recently in allowing Gnus to delay
> retrieval of MIME parts?  I was just pondering how to do this and
> thought that it would not be too hard to have nnimap spoof the
> delayed portions with a content type of
> application/x-gnus-external-imap with a location header that looks
> like a Netscape IMAP-ish URL.[1]

There is an RFC defining a URL MIME External-Body Access-Type:
	http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2017.txt

> Or if there is an `imap' URL standard somewhere, that would be even
> better.

Voilá!
	http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2192.txt

> Could the message/external-body content-type be abused this way?

Probably.  See the top URL.

> I would _really_ love to switch to IMAP, but without delaying
> attachments, the appeal over and above POP is not compelling. :)

What's holding me back right now, is lack of article editing
possiblities,... and I'm sortof addicted to reparenting...  I also
like to hack MIME types from application/octet-stream (which
MSMail/MSExchange and Lotus Notes put on everything) into something
more meaningful.