Uday Reddy <usr.vm.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >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? > >Indeed. The headers are needed to generaty the summary. So they are always >loaded. > >It would be possible to keep only selected header fields necessary for the >summary and refetch the others as needed. But that would need some delicate >programming that I didn't have the stomach for.
Sure, saving partial headers would be a lot of trouble for almost no gain. The win -- in some cases -- would be not to use disk at all.
