Postler shouldn't download attachments along with new messages
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Postler |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Currently Postler automatically downloads headers, bodies and attachments when checking and receiving new mail. Although it makes sense to download headers and bodies together (to improve app speed), automatically downloading attachments could be problematic in some cases.
This can be an issue when big attachments (think 2-3 up to 10MB) are present in new messages. Then Postler could be particularly slow in receiving and displaying new mail (not even considering slow or dial-up internet connections). To make an analogy, webmails (Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and the ilk) are fast because they "fetch" the message without any attachments and leave it up to the user to download them if needed. Opera Mail, Opera's e-mail client, is fast because by default it does not download any attachments.
There are many reasons why one wouldn't want to automatically download all incoming attachments, such as internet speed or disk space. In most cases Postler couldn't know if the user actually wants to automatically download attachments, so it might make sense to disable this behaviour. What do you think?
tags: |
added: attachments removed: attachements |
Changed in postler: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
I completely agree on that, Postler should definitely download attachments only when asked (maybe when clicking on the attachment?)