Re: IMAP SNIPPET extension (initial draft)

Michael M Slusarz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imapext
Message-ID <20150506133543.Horde.XoqNpGjwdRJe2q1r1Xu5LbQ@bigworm.curecanti.org>
Quoting Cyrus Daboo <[email protected]>:

> 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.

Yup.  That's what I mentioned it later in that message :)

If that algorithm was to be implemented, I would think that it almost  
becomes a MUST requirement that dynamically generated text only be  
created if the client has explicitly set a language via the LANGUAGE  
command.  Otherwise the only sane response is to use the actual body  
content.

michael

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