Re: [Evolution] options on download

[Ron Chmara <ron Opus1 COM>]

John Griffiths wrote:
> allow me to illustrate;
> i receive about 300 messages a day of which maybe 10% will have 500kb+ pdf files attached to them
> at home i'm on a 28kbs line
> if evolution insists on downloading the entirety of every message i will be forced with great sadness to 
> look elsewhere for an email client. It's just not an option for me.
> people like me may be a small part of your prospective user group.
> but do you really want to lose all of us?
>
> At 11:28 PM 6/1/2000 EDT, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > No...
> > I can picture it now...
> > "Why is my message truncated!?! Bug in Evolution!!!"
> > this wouldn't be a good thing :)
> > Jeff

My dos centavos...

Standard (default)for POP3:
Download all of the message block, with an option to stop the
current message download, with a follow up dialog (DO you wish to
cancel entire session?). Put stop buttons in the progress window.
List overall size, and use a proportional (by size) progress bar.

Cool POP3 _options_:
Offer a "first 10K only" preference. I have to respectfully disagree that
stopping a sesion and starting a new one is too inefficient, it is much, much,
more efficient than downloading a 30Mb mailbox. Yes, I can (and do) get
30Mb of mail in one day. On a modem, it takes a while.

Standard (default) for IMAP:
Download headers and body text only, with the same options to stop.

Cool IMAP _options_:
Downloading header only.  Always strip attachments.

If it doesn't support IMAP, well, for me, it's pretty much useless.
And if it supported POP _or_ IMAP for a given server entry, when
the download session was started, that would be even nicer....

-Ronabop
 
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