From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/12019 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Call for nnimap hackers [was: Emacs/Gnus: About simple after things :-) [was: GNUS and imap]] Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:04:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87eix9pjmv.fsf@kjonca.kjonca> <87ocwd8hve.fsf@kjonca.kjonca> <87ljr4l5an.fsf_-_@kjonca.kjonca> <87eiwwl3ne.fsf@kjonca.kjonca> <8763i8l2fs.fsf@nospam.invalid> <8zr60u3vx4.fsf@nusnet-97-126.dynip.nus.edu.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237579533 22899 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2009 20:05:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:05:33 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 20 21:06:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lkkyu-0007vf-Q8 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:06:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50747 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkkxY-0001Hd-A1 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:04:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lkkx5-0000r3-HQ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lkkx0-0000lJ-Jy for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33457 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lkkx0-0000l4-Em for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37074 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lkkwz-00006Z-VA for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lkkwx-00061q-Kk for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:04:15 +0000 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:04:15 +0000 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:04:15 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:I4PBrEsD4tsA6Wk5azltupVnQtA= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:12019 Archived-At: on Thu Mar 19 2009, Leo wrote: > On 2009-03-19 05:48 +0000, poppyer wrote: >> Leo writes: >> >> : On 2009-03-19 02:37 +0000, poppyer wrote: >> :> The only thing I am missing in nnimap (of gnus) is that I can not >> :> preview the email by partial downloading. A typical scenario is when I >> :> got a email with 2M attachments, I can only read the few lines of text >> :> after I download all the 2M attachments, which is very very slow... >> : >> : This seems very interesting. Do you know about any email clients that >> : provide imap preview? >> >> I am not sure about other email clients (such as Thunderbird), need to >> be tried. But partial downloading is supported by the FETCH command in >> IMAP RFC. >> >> This thread (two years ago) gives some clues: >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62566/focus=62654 > > Thank you for answering. > > It will be very useful if Gnus can use this feature whenever an email is > greater than certain size. I would be interested in starting a group of nnimap hackers who are interested in learning and improve that backend. Takers? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com