Re: prototype balsa-index optimalizations

[Carlos Morgado <chbm gnome org>]

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:27:10, Bart Visscher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Attached is a prototype how the fetching and displaying of messages could  
> be done. The idea is to let the balsa-index class tell the mailbox which  
> headers are needed to display and thread. If the mailbox supports threading  
> that is offloaded too. For IMAP further optimalizations can be done, for  
> example the message structure could be retrieved and only the displayed  
> parts fetched.
>

For imap with GMime we can do nifty stuff. GMime allows you to have mime-part  
monikers that tie into the gmime stream. So you in a multipart/alternative  
message you could ask for the part you want to display and keep an empty  
placeholder for the other one.
To do this all we need is a generic get-part interface in libbalsa and  
subclass a gmimestreamimap.

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