Re: [Evolution] Imap & Attachments

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > AFAIK there is currently no way of not downloading attachments. However,
> > as the IMAP code is planned to be rewritten for 1.6, maybe this will
> > make it in the new code as an option?
> >
> > Jeff, what do you think?
>
> this feature is actually already implemented, however what is probably
> happening is that the attachment parts are not tagged with an
> appropriate Content-Type an so evo says "I have no idea what mime-type
> this part is, so I better sniff it" and so in order to do that it has to
> download the particular attachment. This should only be happening if the
> Content-Type is application/octet-stream tho.

What I (and probably Axel) was thinking of would be an option, to never
load attachments, until I willingly requested so. (Then use the cache,
as currently, so I do not have to load it everytime I wanna see it.)


> anyways, for 1.6 we have some ideas on how to improve this. IMAP allows
> us to only download a substream of the mime part, and so we plan on
> doing this when we have to sniff (like maybe the first 1K or maybe less
> - we could probably get away with just the first 100-200 bytes, so maybe
> we'll only grab that much?)

Jeff, please put that into the draft for the rewrite. :-)


> the problem with this...is that with all the imap (and pop3 and smtp,
> etc) server brokeness we've encountered, I'm a bit worried this will
> cause people problems... *sigh*
>
> my guess is that we'll implement it and if people report that their imap
> servers suck (like they did with POP3 servers for the 1.4 release),
> we'll just add a checkbox or something to work around the server
> brokeness.

I bet! Mine is a good candidate for this... ;-)

...guenther


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