Re: Fetching short text snippet for mails

Arnt Gulbrandsen <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Dec 2014 18:06:20 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.imapext
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On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 5:37:31 PM CEST, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> 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.

This I like. Simple for the server, simple for the client, a clear win for 
the client. The only disadvantage is that the client still has to do the 
heavy text extraction. But it needs that code anyway if it is to work with 
unextended servers.

Arnt

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