Re: GMime refs broken?

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm net>]

On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:33:22, Bart Visscher wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:15:20, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
>> On 09/08/2003, Magick wrote:
>> [ snip ]
>>> My suggestion for a long term solution is posted to the list, subject:
>>> 'prototype balsa-index optimalizations'. The patch basicly does 2
>>> things:
>>> 1. Delay loading msg envelop to when it is used for display, or when
>>> doing client side threading only load the envelop.
>>> 2. Offload the threading to the imap server when it supports it.
>>> 
>>> For maildir and mh mailboxes something simular is possible.
>>> 
>>> Bart
>> 
>> Bart:
>> 
>> Thanks! I saw the patch, but didn't read it that closely. Perhaps I'm
>> missing something: I don't see where it addresses the issue of open file
>> descriptors in GMime.
>>
> For maildir and mh i was thinking of writing a simple header parser that
> just reads the envelop data (in fetch_headers, see protopatch), and later
> on get_message parses the msg with gmime. For now his can be done by
> reading the envelop at load_message time.
>

That's not enough. You might not get attach or pgp info from the envelope

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