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Re: imap downloads complete mails instead of headers only?



* Frank Altpeter <frank@xxxxxxxxxxx> [15-07-2004 21:24]:

> I tested using IMAP to read my personal mailbox from remote (i usually
> read it locally).

[...]

> I detected that mutt seems to download not only the headers of the
> emails, but the complete content of all emails that are shown in the
> index view (defaults to the first 25 ones here), and store them in
> my temp directory.

Based on settings like your $index_format and color directives, mutt may
find it necessary to download the entire message, because the
information mutt needs may not be present in the IMAP headers that are
downloaded by default.

HTH,

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