Geert wrote: > When you receive an email with an attachment, you can only read the > attachment after having downloaded the messages via Inbox properties. > I use an IMAP-server on my local network, so the messages may be > downloaded automatically. It would be a very nice option.
No please not! Everytime I install my IMAP account on an Outlook box it begins downloading every selected mail immediatly except I click through thousands of dialogboxes to find the cehckbox to disable this behavior! The problem with Outlook then is, that it is completly blocked while downloading an attachement. For me I have an IMAP-Subfolder called Fileserver and there are only mails containing some large attachements with system backups. One wrong click in Outlook and then killing the application and starting it again! > That you can select a directory for automatically synchronizing when you're on-line. Who uses IMAP and wants to synchronize a complete mailbox or folder as soon as a connection exists ? The goal of IMAP is to only produce traffic for data which is really needed and asked for ! So why do IMAP servers deliver the message headlines without the message bodies at all ? If this will be implemented it should be really a nice-to-have feature and absolutely not enabled by default like Outlook does please !
