Re: Fetching short text snippet for mails

Alexey Melnikov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imapext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Cyrus,

On 02/12/2014 16:37, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> Hi Timo,
>
> --On December 1, 2014 at 10:39:13 PM -0800 Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Nowadays many mail clients want to show about 100 chars of the beginning
>> of mail, so there should be a nice and efficient way for clients to
>> request this. I'm now wondering what would be a nice IMAP way of
>> implementing this. Does anyone have some suggestions? There's what I've
>> come up with so far:
>
> Efficient as in eliminating the current extra round trip of doing a 
> FETCH BODY.PEEK[<section>]<<partial>>? If so, then I think "SNIPPET" 
> should be an alias for BODY.PEEK[the first significant text 
> section]<<partial>>. i.e., the server does not do anything more than 
> determine the "the first significant text section". The client still 
> gets to use <<partial>> as it could today.
I thought so too. That is why I've asked the question what exactly is 
"snippet". Unless "snippet" needs to convert from text/html to 
text/plain (or vice versa), etc.


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