Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 18:21, Steve Hole wrote: > > A well written client should fetch BODYSTRUCTURE as preferentially before > > fetching any other body data. > > But if I'm just browsing message headers, only thing I need is ENVELOPE. > BODYSTRUCTURE is needed only when actually opening the message.
Isn't BODYSTRUCTURE mostly the same as ENVELOPE? Sometimes there's lots of body parts and BODYSTRUCTURE is big, but usually there's just the one text/* part and BODYSTRUCTURE is nice and small. What size is ENVELOPE*x+BODYSTRUCTURE*y, if you optimize for the smallest possible x? And for the smallest possible y? (Yes, I realize you need to fetch certain other things. Thread information and the subject field spring to mind.) --Arnt
