Re: nnimap-split-download-body removed?

[Bodertz]

I can confirm that setting `nnimap-split-download-body-default' to t
works as intended.  I really should have tried that first.

It sounds like the removal wasn't intentional, so hopefully it can be
added back.

It seems to download the body before the splitting, which is
unfortunate.  It would be better if it only downloaded the body when the
split required it.  Or if it could match the sender against a whitelist
of accepted senders and only download when they matched.  Or the same
thing but with the summary, but then it's getting close to just adding
a simpler split system before the real one, which is a little odd.

So I don't forget, someone also suggested `nnimap-split-download-body
size', which might be a useful addition:

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> Re: nnimap-split-download-body feature request
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> Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:20:09 -0500
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> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, jas@extundo.com wrote:
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> > Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
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> >> Nah, just fetch the headers.  I think that's all you can reasonably
> >> expect as a Gnus user.  Maybe fake the body with "BODY TOO LARGE"
> >> or something like that, or add a header, but I personally think
> >> that retrieving just the headers in such a case is a perfectly good
> >> solution.
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> > The asynchronous prefetch, agent, cache (and possibly more things)
> > would cache this incomplete article.  How would they know the
> > message was incomplete?  After requesting a re-fetch of the entire
> > article, all those cached copies will need to be purged.  Sounds
> > like work.
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> I'm not sure I understand.  Here's a patch to show you what I think
> could be done, since nnimap-split-articles already decides between
> the head and the whole body.  The nnimap-check-body-size function
> needs to be provided, but I hope you see what I mean.
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> Ted.
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> --- nnimap.el   4 Sep 2003 22:22:18 -0000       6.71
> +++ nnimap.el   20 Nov 2003 14:20:24 -0000
> @@ -1271,9 +1271,10 @@
>           (when (setq rule (nnimap-split-find-rule server inbox))
>             ;; iterate over articles
>             (dolist (article (imap-search nnimap-split-predicate))
> -             (when (if (if (eq nnimap-split-download-body 'default)
> -                           nnimap-split-download-body-default
> -                         nnimap-split-download-body)
> +             (when (if (and (nnimap-check-body-size article)
> +                            (if (eq nnimap-split-download-body 'default)
> +                                nnimap-split-download-body-default
> +                              nnimap-split-download-body))
>                         (and (nnimap-request-article article)
>                              (with-current-buffer nntp-server-buffer 
> (mail-narrow-to-head)))
>                       (nnimap-request-head article))
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