Assessment thread: browse imap messages without downloading attachments

[mere user]

hi,

my main interest in the imap folders feature was because when I check email from home, on a relatively slow connection, I'd like to be able to read my mail without downloading large attachments. This seems possible with the squirrel-mail web-based application that my workplace uses, but not with vm. am just wondering if that's a possible extension...?

cheers, E

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

mere user writes:

> my main interest in the imap folders feature was because when I check
> email from home, on a relatively slow connection, I'd like to be able to
> read my mail without downloading large attachments. This seems possible
> with the squirrel-mail web-based application that my workplace uses, but
> not with vm. am just wondering if that's a possible extension...?

That is possible in principle, but it is nontrivial to implement it.
So, at the moment, no such facilities are there. All the messages are
downloaded along with all the attachments.

However, my experience is that, the downloading time is not all that
bad in practice. When we browse the web, we do after all download all
the 'attachments'. This would be similar.

Cheers,
Uday