Re: [Pan-devel] message/partial support (Update)

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

I can try working on it this week. Shouldn't be too difficult.

Jeff

On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 20:46, Charles Kerr wrote:
> This is great news Jeff, as soon as this gets plugged in we'll
> not only be able to support message/partial, but we'll also be
> able to get rid of the one-big-temp-file required in decoding
> multiparts now.
> 
> Did you want to plug glib2 into pan's cvs head, or do you want
> me to do it?
> 
> cheers,
> Charles
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 03:34:50AM -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > n/m, figured it out - there were a few issues actually :-)
> > 
> > 1. I was forgetting to check bounds in GMimeStreamCat::read (and also
> > ::write)
> > 
> > 2. I was forgetting that not all source streams have to have a
> > bound_start of 0 (duh!) ;-)
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 00:29, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > I've basically "finished" this, although I may have to change the
> > > gmime-message-partial.c API a bit. Instead of:
> > > 
> > > GMimeMessage *
> > > g_mime_message_partial_reconstruct_message (GMimeMessagePartial **,
> > > size_t num);
> > > 
> > > I may have to pass in GMimeMessages, since rfc1521 says that I must
> > > merge the raw headers in the message/partial part with the headers of
> > > the original message (discluding Content-* headers and maybe a few
> > > others, I forget).
> > > 
> > > 
> > > now for the Bad News (tm):
> > > 
> > > GMimeStreamCat seems to be buggy and I'm having trouble finding the
> > > problem. I think it has to do with substreaming a Cat stream. When I
> > > write out the reconstructed message, it seems to write the wrong section
> > > of the stream for at least one of the parts?
> > > If I write the Cat stream to a mem stream before parsing it into a
> > > GMimeMessage, then writing out the resultant message is fine.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'll work on this some more tomorrow...
> > > 
> > > Jeff
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 14:23, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > > I've started hacking this last night and am nearly finished but I'm not
> > > > sure what the best interface would be for splitting a message into
> > > > multiple messages containing message/partial parts.
> > > > 
> > > > The way I see it, I could either return an array of GMimeMessagePartial
> > > > parts and leave it up to our caller to construct the GMimeMessages and
> > > > embed the GMimeMessagePartial parts themselves, or I could return an
> > > > array of GMimeMessages.
> > > > 
> > > > I think I'm leaning toward the second one, but I'm not sure...
> > > > 
> > > > In case you're interested in how it will be implemented, the interface
> > > > will look something like this:
> > > > 
> > > > GMimeMessage **g_mime_message_partial_split_message (GMimeMessage
> > > > *message, size_t max_size, int *nparts);
> > > > 
> > > > 'max_size' will be a way to tell GMime that you don't want any mime part
> > > > to contain any more than max_size bytes of the original message.
> > > > 'nparts' will be set to the number of parts in the array (which you will
> > > > have to g_free when you're done with it - the array, not nparts).
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On a related note, has Pan 0.12.x been ported to use GMime2 yet? If not,
> > > > I might look into working on that in my spare time this week/weekend.
> > > > 
> > > > Jeff
> > > > 
> > > > 
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