I am currently suffering with the 'bug' detailed http://support.microsoft.com/kb/191504 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92111
To summarise it, the remote IMAP server reports sizes incorrectly. That in itself I can live with. However, the effect I can't live with is when the server not provide all the attachments when I view a message, which I think is as a result of this bug. It just so happens that, when this happens, Mutt never downloads the text/plain part in particular, so what gets displayed in the viewer is raw HTML (everyone sends HTML :(). For example, I know that a particular message has text/plain and text/html parts, but, when this bug happens, Mutt only downloads the text/html part. I know this is not a fault of Mutt, but that of the server. Is there a workaround for this in Mutt, some command I can do that will re-download a message from the server? The 'copy it to another folder' workaround mentioned in the second link above doesn't work for me. This also prevents me from using message_cachedir, because if I have a new message and download it when the server is behaving badly like this, the cached message only contains the text/html part, and there's no way to get the full message (including text/plain) without clearing cache, restarting Mutt, and downloading the message again, in which case the server might give me only text/html again! There is an enhancement request (http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3465) to do with only downloading a specific part, which might help if it ever gets implemented. -- .
