Re: Fetching short text snippet for mails

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014, at 10:14 PM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 12:35:42 AM CEST, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > It's like FUZZY search.  Rather than specifying an exact algorithm which
> > can be identical in every server, we're much better off saying "present
> > a preview that gives a brief overview of what's in the message" and let
> > the server calculate it as it sees fit.
> 
> Fuzzy is roughly like this:
> 
>    if(server supports fuzzy)
>       send "fuzzy + " foo
>    else
>       send "(or subject " + foo + " body " + foo + ")"
> 
> Your client uses your snippet extension more like this:
> 
>    assert(server supports snippet)
>    send "uid fetch snippet"
> 
> Quite similar in that it's simple for the client and good for the user, but 
> there is a difference between if and assert ;)

if (server support snippet)
  send "uid fetch snippet"
else if (use dumb snippets anyway)
  send "uid fetch BODY<0.140>"
else
  don't display snippet field

It's not rocket surgery.

(there's a complex else case too, I pasted it earlier, but the easy is to just not display it, or display the first 140 bytes of the body)

-- 
  Bron Gondwana
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