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Re: Fetching entire message for index page



On Sat 15 Nov 2003 at 02:36pm -0800, moseley@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:52:52AM -0500, Allister MacLeod wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:31:37AM -0800, moseley@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > I check headers in messages to see if my address is mentioned.  For
> > > example:
> > > color index       yellow  black "~x hank\.org"   # References
> > > color index       green black "~i hank\.org"     # Message ID
> > > color index       blue  black "~h In-Reply-To:.*hank\.org
> > > The problem is I'm using imap over the network and those checks causes the
> > > entire message to be fetched (which is a pain on a slow link with lots
> > > of messages with large binary attachments).
> > 
> > As Michelle said, none of the patterns you mention should cause the
> > entire message to be fetched.  It should just grab the header.  If you
> > were using something else like ~b or ~B, then it would have to fetch
> > the body too.  
> 
> I just emailed myself a message with about a 6MB attachement.  I then 
> commented out these three:
> 
> #color index       yellow  black "~x hank\.org"   # References
> #color index       green black "~i hank\.org"     # Message ID
> #color index       blue  black "~h In-Reply-To:.*hank\.org

I notice there's a missing closing double quote there.

-John