On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 01:46, Larry Osterman wrote: > You're missing my point. > > This mailing list is about the PROTOCOL. Discussions should be about > are about what's best for the clients that are engineered to use the > protocol and the servers that implement, not for those that are using > subsets of the protocol. As such, clients like OE and Evolution are > poor choices to consider when discussing protocol design.
Ah, sure. I was getting off topic there (or earlier), I just meant that "just make the server cache the bodystructure" may not be the best behaviour for server in all cases. Still, even if client does use BODYSTRUCTURE, I don't think it's optimal behaviour to fetch it for all messages before it's actually needed. > I think it was Lyndon who pointed out that it's the client that's best > suited to determine if a message has attachments or not - the server > will almost always get it wrong. Right, it can't always say if the message has an attachment, but for many cases it can say that it doesn't have attachment (Content-Type: text/*). But I think I'll just use custom message flags for this if I decide to not use BODYSTRUCTURE.
