Re: [Evolution-hackers] A plugin for remove attachments.

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

Evolution used to do this, but some IMAP server products don't parse
MIME properly and so if you trust their BODY/BODYSTRUCTURE responses,
you'll end up with a broken message if you later try to piece the parts
together (you'll note that at one point we had a workaround for Courier
IMAP until we just decided it was too much effort and just went with
full body downloads all the time like the other widely used IMAP
clients).

Jeff

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 17:39 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 01:06 +0800, Rex Tsai wrote:
> >   I wrote a plugin for remove attachments from emails. You can
> > download the source code from
> > http://people.debian.org.tw/~chihchun/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/remove-attachments-0.0.1.tar.gz
> > 
> >   If you are interesting about this plugin, I post some screen shots
> > on my blog ( http://people.debian.org.tw/~chihchun/ )
> > http://people.debian.org.tw/~chihchun/2006/10/23/remove-attachments-plugin-for-evolution-001/
> > 
> >  You are free to modify this software, feedback is welcome. Thanks.
> > 
> Hey Rex Tsai,
> 
> What would be very very interesting would be support for partial
> retrieval of messages (from a POP and IMAP service), rather than
> removing the mime parts afterwards.
> 
> I'm going to implement this (for tinymail) sooner or later. But if you
> are interested in this, let me know.
> 
> For IMAP, check out RFC 3501, page 58 section 6.4.5. For example "FETCH
> uid (BODY [1])" and BODY.PEEK. For POP I still have to read the RFCs a
> little bit first.
> 
> I was planning to mark such messages and add some infrastructure around
> the feature, so that it would be possible to retrieve the remainder (the
> non body part) when it's needed by the E-mail client (lazily).
> 
> 
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Desktop Hacker - Novell, Inc.
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