Re: [Evolution] Imap & Attachments

[Axel Mueller <axel mueller iwe uni-karlsruhe de>]

Am Mit, 2003-07-16 um 06.03 schrieb Not Zed:
> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 03:24, guenther wrote:
> > > > 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
>
> Well afaict (from when i was working on the display rewrite which i
> really need to get into cvs soon) the code should only do this if the
> attachment is already downloaded (i.e. local), otherwise it just treats
> it as unknown ...
>
> Its a different case if the disposition on the attachment is 'show
> inline', its always downloaded in that case (and sniffed if required).
Inline attachment are no problem, as these are usually pictures which
are not so large (in bytes).

> > > 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.)
>
> This would only cover attachments right?  (e.g. not inline pics in html
> stuff?).
>
> We could just add a very trivial-to-implement 'dont show attachments
> inline by default' option.  Which is probably the crux of the issue.
Oh yes. This would be nice.

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Axel Mueller <axel mueller iwe uni-karlsruhe de>
IWE, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH)