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Call for nnimap hackers [was: Emacs/Gnus: About simple after things :-)
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David Abrahams |
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Call for nnimap hackers [was: Emacs/Gnus: About simple after things :-) [was: GNUS and imap]] |
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Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:04:04 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (darwin) |
on Thu Mar 19 2009, Leo <sdl.web-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2009-03-19 05:48 +0000, poppyer wrote:
>> Leo <sdl.web@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
- Re: GNUS and imap, (continued)
- Re: GNUS and imap, Andreas Most, 2009/03/17
- Re: GNUS and imap, Richard Riley, 2009/03/17
- Re: GNUS and imap, Andreas Most, 2009/03/17
- Re: GNUS and imap, David Abrahams, 2009/03/18
- Message not available
- Emacs/Gnus: About simple after things :-) [was: GNUS and imap], Andrzej Adam Filip, 2009/03/18
- Re: Emacs/Gnus: About simple after things :-) [was: GNUS and imap], David Abrahams, 2009/03/18
- Message not available
- Re: Emacs/Gnus: About simple after things :-) [was: GNUS and imap], poppyer, 2009/03/18
- Re: Emacs/Gnus: About simple after things :-) [was: GNUS and imap], Leo, 2009/03/19
- Message not available
- Re: Emacs/Gnus: About simple after things :-) [was: GNUS and imap], poppyer, 2009/03/19
- Re: Emacs/Gnus: About simple after things :-) [was: GNUS and imap], Leo, 2009/03/19
- Call for nnimap hackers [was: Emacs/Gnus: About simple after things :-) [was: GNUS and imap]],
David Abrahams <=
- Re: GNUS and imap, Andrzej Adam Filip, 2009/03/17