Re: [Evolution] options on download

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj helixcode com>]

we will support IMAP, I have a huge chunk of it coded already...

I still don't agree with the 10K thing, but the rest I fully agree with

Jeff

On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Ron Chmara wrote:
> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 21:12:25 -0700
> To: John Griffiths <john capmon com>
> From: Ron Chmara <ron opus1 com>
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] options on download
>
> 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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