But that's what IMAP is designed for: fetch just the headers first and
then fetch the body of whatever messages one is interested in.

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:14 PM, senser<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yes, I have implemented a similar logic already in other controller,
> but in this way I have to query the IMAP server twice - one for
> fetching headers to display, and once again to fetch whole message and
> store it to DB. I was thinking for some way to get the message just
> once at all, display only particular headers in view and then store it
> without an extra call to IMAP server.
>
> On Aug 16, 7:53 pm, brian <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Or, come to that, don't use a form at all. Create another action to
>> save an email using an ID and pass that in a regular link. If you want
>> to be able to save several at once (eg. select them with checkboxes)
>> of course, you'll need a form. But the principle is the same: just
>> pass the message ID back to your app and have it grab whatever you
>> want to save from the remote server.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Roel<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Well basically all you need in your form is an identifier and data
>> > that the user can change.
>> > If you got some identifier of the messages you need to save, then you
>> > can use that to save the data from your mail server directly to your
>> > database. There is no need to send all the data to the client and then
>> > let the client send it back to the server unaltered.
>>
>> > -Roel
>>
>> > On Aug 16, 8:48 am, senser <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>>
>> >> I was wondering if there is a way to send some data (often
>> >> intermediate to large array) from view to controller action.
>> >> For example - I have an controller action that reads emails from
>> >> remote IMAP server and displays unread messages in corresponding view
>> >> offering to user to save desired emails in database. The problem is
>> >> that form in view displays only some of message headers (from, to and
>> >> subject) but I want to save all headers in database (i.e. message-id).
>> >> I can make a hidden field to hold this fields, but sometimes fields
>> >> are very large and hidden field is not the best way.
>> >> Is there any other way to send data from view to controller action?
>>
>> >> Cheers!
> >
>

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