Re: IMAP SNIPPET extension (initial draft)
Cyrus Daboo <[email protected]>
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Hi Michael, --On May 6, 2015 at 1:11:06 PM -0600 Michael M Slusarz <[email protected]> wrote: > As for your examples as when a server cannot extract a suitable snippet: > those are actually great use cases as to why an extensible SNIPPET > extension is useful. As someone had mentioned in the initial > conversation on the topic (apologies that I don't remember who brought > the topic up), it may be useful to have a server generate a snippet like > > - "This message contains 2 images" > - "This message contains 1 image (X KB)" > - "This message contains encrypted content" > - "[This message contains 2 attachments] <...Snippet text of initial > body part...>" > > rather than display actual textual content of any single message body. Well that gets tricky because really those strings would need to be localized. Perhaps the LANGUAGE extension (RFC5255) could be leveraged for that. -- Cyrus Daboo _______________________________________________ imapext mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/imapext