From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 13:01:10 CST
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> So it _will_ be necessary to consult the article, or can it be got from
> the overview?
You can't get from a storage API token to an overview entry either,
without reading the article and getting the article number out of Xref.
> BTW, if I ask for an article by Message-ID, how can I get the overview
> entry for it?
You can't, so far as I know, although I could be missing something. I
need to go look at the new overview implementation in detail again and
make sure I understand it.
> Or is it the case that I shouldn't ever need the overview in that case?
About the only time I can think of when a client would get a bunch of
message IDs and be retrieving messages that way is via NEWNEWS. Which
isn't my favorite protocol in the world.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>