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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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3354#comment:1>
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