On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 08:46, guenther wrote: > > I use Evolution (1.4) to view emails from an imap server. I leave the > > emails on the server. Unfortunately, Evolution downloads every time the > > whole email inclusive the attachement. This is really annoying when I > > use my slow modem line at home. I only want to view the email body and > > download the attachment later if I want so. I used the email client > > Mulberry and there it was no problem. Is it possible to tell Evolution > > to download only the body message? Any hints welcome. > > AFAIK there is currently no way of not downloading attachments. However, > as the IMAP code is planned to be rewritten for 1.6, maybe this will > make it in the new code as an option? > > Jeff, what do you think?
this feature is actually already implemented, however what is probably happening is that the attachment parts are not tagged with an appropriate Content-Type an so evo says "I have no idea what mime-type this part is, so I better sniff it" and so in order to do that it has to download the particular attachment. This should only be happening if the Content-Type is application/octet-stream tho. anyways, for 1.6 we have some ideas on how to improve this. IMAP allows us to only download a substream of the mime part, and so we plan on doing this when we have to sniff (like maybe the first 1K or maybe less - we could probably get away with just the first 100-200 bytes, so maybe we'll only grab that much?) the problem with this...is that with all the imap (and pop3 and smtp, etc) server brokeness we've encountered, I'm a bit worried this will cause people problems... *sigh* my guess is that we'll implement it and if people report that their imap servers suck (like they did with POP3 servers for the 1.4 release), we'll just add a checkbox or something to work around the server brokeness. > > > To your issue: My observations are totally different, using IMAP too. I > just checked it with a 5 MByte attachment: > > When viewing the mail the first time, the attachment is loaded. But the > mail *and* the attachment are stored in a cache, so that I do not have > to wait every time I read this mail. *nod* since this is the case for everyone (I should imagine, at least) - I suspected what he meant was that each time he opens a new message (which has not been looked at before), it always downloads the attachment(s) in order to sniff them. I could be wrong tho... > > This caching even survives closing Evolution for me. > > > Does your IMAP server generate new UIDL id's for every new session at > any chance? :-/ this could also be a problem... :-) based on a bug report from one of the Sun Evo hackers I got last night, I am suspecting that his server does this. Jeff > > ...guenther -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
