On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:55:38 +0200 Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's what I meant with "fetching BODY", except I remembered BODY was > enough. But still, fetching BODYSTRUCTURE is pretty much useless > cpu/bandwidth usage just for one paperclip icon. No, it's not. A well written client should fetch BODYSTRUCTURE as preferentially before fetching any other body data. The amount of bandwidth used in the fetch, with the possible exception of handheld devices (which are exceedingly unlikely to be able to display attachment data anyway), is simply a non-issue. For the vast majority of mail clients in use it is round trips that kill -- latency, not bandwidth. Fetching the bodystructure provides you will the ability to do proper MHTML processing, security processing, and body structure presentation. All the things that you want to do in a good client. Sucking down the entire RFC822 text to get at the message structure -- now that's a waste of bandwidth, processing power and time for messages that may never be looked at. Cheers. --- Steve Hole Chief Technology Officer - Billing and Payment Systems ACI Worldwide <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: 780-424-4922
