On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 19:34, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> DINH Viet Hoa writes:
> > Timo Sirainen wrote :
> >>  FETCH BODY.PEEK[*.HEADER.FIELDS (...)] would be a nice addition.
> >
> > what do you mean by BODY.PEEK[*.HEADER.FIELDS (...)] ? I can't see 
> > what is exactly missing.
> 
> Suppose you have a multipart/digest and want to fetch all the subject 
> and from fields from the digest's individual entries: FETCH 
> BODY.PEEK[*.HEADER.FIELDS (From Subject)].
> 
> But I had to think hard to find an example...

The point was that it could replace BODY and BODYSTRUCTURE fetches
completely by allowing client to say exactly what fields it needs, not
some specific fields forced by protocol which may be more or less than
needed by the client.

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