Uday Reddy <usr.vm.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It might be good to have a second IMAP client, or an option to the >> existing one, that doesn't keep a local copy of the IMAP folder. Of >> course, it should use IMAP's ability to fetch only message headers, >> without bodies, to generate the summary. I think it would only have >> to fetch one message body at a time, when the user looks at it. It >> could cache, in memory, about the last three or so messages. > >You can set `vm-imap-max-message-size' to 0 to avoid loading message bodies.
So, what, VM still keeps a local disk copy of the folder but puts only headers in it? Which would mean that variable is the maximum size of the body, not the whole message?