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Perhaps a third case:
- very large attachments (even if the network connection is not extremely slow, case 1, or expensive, case 2)
What about providing a checkbox option ‘Don't fetch automatically attachments bigger than ..’ (and provide several options in a combobox, say 100KB, 250KB, 500KB, 1MB, 2MB, 5MB)? Would this be unnecessarily complicated?
When I reported this bug my main concern was that Postler could start indiscriminately downloading big to huge attachments, hogging my bandwidth and disk space. In principle, I'm not against its downloading relatively small attachments, and I would actually welcome it. So a 'Don't fetch bigger than' option could be very handy.
A small remark regarding connman: it may easily fail to detect the case of slow DSL connections. The Wifi connection at my university is sometimes slower than the very slow dial-up connection that I had in my infancy at home. I sure wouldn't want Postler to start downloading big attachments on this connection. :)