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Re: [Mutt] #3354: Please support downloading fewer headers via IMAP



#3354: Please support downloading fewer headers via IMAP
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 Reporter:  josh         |       Owner:  mutt-dev
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:          
Component:  mutt         |     Version:          
 Keywords:               |  
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Changes (by brendan):

  * priority:  major => minor
  * type:  defect => enhancement


Comment:

 There's no harm in requesting fields like Lines -- if the messages lack
 the field, there's no overhead. The other fields requested are used for
 various flags in the index, and while some could be removed for some
 sorting modes and index formats, mutt would then have to handle fetching
 them if the format or sort mode changed.

 I agree wholeheartedly that it's good to reduce the amount of data mutt
 must download to open a mailbox, but this kind of filtering is, I think,
 pretty small potatoes. We'd get a much, much bigger win out of fetching
 only the headers required to display whatever's currently on screen.
 That's also a fairly big change, but I think it was done before as an
 experimental patch that unfortunately bitrotted.

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