> But remember - with MIME e-mail, there isn't really any way to avoid > downloading both the plain text and HTML versions, even if you're only > interested in the plain text. So you won't gain anything by insisting on > viewing the plain text version if you have a slow link (right?)
This is wrong, IMAP does support separate part downloading. But we only do it if its a big message (>5K), which is probably bigger than many posts anyway. So you get no bandwidth reduction, but you do get an elapsed time reduction, because 1 request is faster than multiple requsts over a high-latency modem link. (I wish the imap developers had to use my setup, I use pop myself, as it is much faster and i dont get too many large attachments as a rule). > > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 05:49, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 00:43, Colin Walters wrote: > > > > > I have written a patch which implements this > > > (http://people.debian.org/~walters/debian/render-html.patch). Some of > > > the Evolution developers aren't convinced that many people would use > > > it. So, we decided to have a poll. If you would like to see this patch > > > in Evolution, please send a message in support to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I do not see the point for 'many users would use it'. From my > > understanding a Mail program should be able to display the email as > > plain text ( != source ). When that is done HTML rendering is an > > optional feature. > > > > Why do I need this patch ? > > > > I use evolution over really slow dial-up lines with IMAP. I want to see > > the ascii email only, no pictures, no attachments, just the information. > > > > Please accept it, > > Soeren. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
