On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 03:28:17 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > So I am asking if someone could kindly refresh my memory on exactly > what IMAP servers do to email they store. Memory says they do not > pre-process messages to break out attachments; that it is not possible > for mutt to only download the basic text or html attachments, and > leave all the jpg, gif, pdf, doc, and other attachments alone until > needed to save on the attachments page.
Attachments can be downloaded separately. I don't know if Mutt does it (I use offlineimap for it), but K-9 on Android doesn't download attachments automatically (for me). I remember KMail doing similar things when I used it. I don't know much more though, sorry. --Ben
