on Thu Mar 19 2009, Leo <sdl.web-AT-gmail.com> wrote: > On 2009-03-19 05:48 +0000, poppyer wrote: >> Leo <sdl....@gmail.com> 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 _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
