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Re: what is the benefit of imap?



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On Thursday, March 19 at 09:21 AM, quoth Marc Vaillant:
>> Sorry, but I think, here you are wrong. Good IMAP-Clients don’t 
>> download the attachments without your interaction (at least you can 
>> configure them in such a way). So the reading of the mails should 
>> be fast in both ways. But if you wish to open an attachment, IMAP 
>> is better than using SSH and local spool.
>
> Is there a way to view the body of an imap message without mutt actually 
> fetching (not saving) all attachments?

Not with mutt. Since mutt was originally designed for viewing a local 
mail spool, it has no concept of "partial" messages. Mutt's IMAP 
features are really there to simulate a local mail spool, which means 
certain features like that would be tough to add (not impossible, but 
tough).

Depending on your definitions, that may mean that mutt isn't a "good" 
IMAP client. It's *reliable*, and it *works*, but it certainly doesn't 
take advantage of all the features of IMAP that it theoretically 
could.

> Fetching a 5-10mb attachment just to view the body text is a 
> significant annoyance when I'm away from my local work LAN. I'd like 
> to be able to view the body text and have mutt fetch the attachments 
> only when I hit "v" -> "return" to view the attachment.

Suggest the feature to the developers. Better yet, implement it 
yourself and submit a patch! Be warned, though: that patch would take 
a *lot* of work.

~Kyle
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