From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13440 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MIME message parts from backends (specifically IMAP) Date: 05 Jan 1998 08:41:36 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.105) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152807 9308 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:26:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA12281 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 00:03:03 -0800 Original-Received: from farabi.hpc.uh.edu (farabi.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA14444 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 02:03:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@[10.1.1.1]) by farabi.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAN17126; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 09:55:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 05 Jan 1998 01:47:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA08706 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 01:47:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 32714 invoked by uid 504); 5 Jan 1998 07:47:15 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 32711 invoked from network); 5 Jan 1998 07:47:13 -0000 Original-Received: from abel.metis.no (HELO gw.metis.no) (193.90.64.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 1998 07:47:11 -0000 Original-Received: by gw.metis.no (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA12354; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 08:46:39 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by metis.no (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA26704; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 08:46:35 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by norne.oslo.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA29646; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 08:41:37 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "04 Jan 1998 10:55:40 +0100" Original-Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.15/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13440 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13440 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > Steinar Bang writes: >> Would it be possible to change the backend interface, to allow access >> to different parts of multipart messages? > Since this would be primarily for IMAP, I think it would make more > sense to do something specifically IMAP'y. Say, have a way to specify > that the (mythical) IMAP backend only retrieve text parts of all > messages by default, and then providing some way of accessing the > remaining parts through buttons or pseudo-articles. What I was thinking (and what probably would *really* get Rich's hackles up :-) ), was that the (mythical) MIME parsing, and support could be moved out into the backend, and that a uniform way to access the message parts could be used across backends. It's just a thought, motivated by a desire to do things in a uniform way, even if it's less efficient, and complicates some parts. How could you actually *do* something specifically IMAP'y? Gnus doesn't know about anything except the standard backend operations, does it? - Steinar