On Wednesday, October 05, 2005, at 01:54 PM, John Thomas wrote: > The only reason I would not download the attachment initially is to > speed up my reading of the message.
Yes. Part of the IMAP protocol includes the ability to download parts of the message at a time. This allows more efficient use of the bandwidth. I may wish to read the 4kb text portion and not bog down my connection retrieving the 5MB attachment. When well implemented, IMAP should allow you to *selectively* download attachments when there are multiple attachments within the message. Currently, TB! is all or none, in that it will either download none, or retrieve them all at once. > Further, does The Bat! have a way to indicate which attachments are > downloaded (i.e. when I go to forward a message how do I know if the > attachments are downloaded or not? It doesn't have the ability to download only some of the attachments. It will either retrieve them all or none. Additionally, the only way I can tell whether or not an attachment has been retrieved is if TB!'s internal viewer can handle the attachment and the tab/s are present for me to select and view the attachment. There would be no visible tab/s if the attachment/s was/were not downloaded. > But, the concept is silly, in my view. If I forward a message, I > expect the attachments to be forwarded with it. If do not want the > attachments forwarded, I would remove them prior to hitting send. I agree with this. The default behaviour should be that the attachments are included. The user may then delete them from the editor. As to the IMAP specific issue of forwarding when the attachment/s have not yet been retrieved? IMO, if I choose to forward the message, TB! should display a popup explaining that the attachments have not been retrieved and whether or not the user wishes to retrieve and forward the attachment/s as well. It's not pleasant when your connection is bogged down forwarding a message with a large attachment that had not yet been retrieve. -- -= Curtis=- Using TB! v3.61.07 Echo (Beta) System Specs: http://specs.aimlink.name =-=-= ...Should I weed the lawn or say it's a garden?
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