On 02/28/2012 06:05 PM, MCBastos wrote: > Interviewed by CNN on 28/02/2012 21:24, NoOp told the world: > >> You don't run the "risk of downloading 20mb attachments by accident" >> with POP if you have your settings properly set. On the other hand, I >> see no options to configure IMAP on SeaMonkey to: 1) fetch only headers, >> and 2) limit download size. I do however have these options for a POP >> account: > > Option 1 is not available because that's the standard behavior of IMAP. > IMAP will ALWAYS download only the headers initially, and the message > body only when actually opening the message. The whole point of IMAP is > keeping the message stored on the server, so it doesn't "prefetch" messages. > >> I note that setting isn't available for an IMAP account - I wonder why >> as I have a greater chance of downloading attachments automatically >> without it... particularly since the option below also isn't available >> in IMAP settings. >> >> Edit|Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings|<account>|To save disk space, do >> not download: x Messages larger than __ KB > > Well, since email in IMAP is only *temporarily* stored on local disk, > the "save disk space" justification is just not there. But...
Found it: Edit|Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings|<account>|Synchronization & Storage|Disk Space: Don't download: x Messages larger than __ KB Odd that it's in a different menu than POP (Edit|Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings|<account>|Disk Space). I guess it was easier to replace 'Disk Space' with the 'Sync' menu & then do a "oh and by the way": Disk Space: Don't download: x Messages larger than __ KB. > >> I note that setting isn't available for an IMAP account. I just sent a >> msg with a 2.5MB attachment from my POP account to one of my IMAP >> accounts... the POP account is set to not download msgs larger than >> 300KB, so it shows me the first part of the msg and I need to click to >> download the rest. On the IMAP account, as soon as I click the msg >> header it just automatically downloaded the entire 2.5MB msg. >> >> Given the above, I'm confused about your comments regarding IMAP v POP. >> Is there a setting that I missed in the IMAP section? > > No, you are right in that Seamonkey does fetch the attachments when the > message is opened. I *thought* that it would fetch only the message > body, leaving the attachment to be manually requested. I tested, and > noticed that yes, the (undesirable) behavior you described was > happening. So I went to Google to figure it out. > > There's a pretty complete writeup of the issue here: > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Entire_message_fetched_when_opening_a_IMAP_message Thanks for that (and your comments/testing), this helps to clarify the 'not so subtle' differences between the two. Gary ... _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
