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Bug 245417 - message access should not download attachments
message access should not download attachments
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 216927
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
pre-1.5 (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[IMAP]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-06-25 04:44 UTC by peter lees
Modified: 2005-11-15 02:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description peter lees 2003-06-25 04:44:41 UTC 
currently, accessing a message via IMAP (either explicitly or in
the preview pane) results in any attachments to the message
being downloaded.

this can cause significant delays during message download,
especially if the IMAP server is on a slow/remote network.

roam (SIMC) and dtmail both offer(ed) the facility to not automatically
download attachments.  

evolution should offer this as an option (most effectively per mail 
server)
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-06-25 15:52:17 UTC 
the current imap code makes its best effort not to download
attachments unless it needs them. however, for
application/octet-stream parts, it downloads the entire part so as to
pass it thru gconf so it can figure out the mime-type. this is
probably why you are seeing it download all attachment parts.

this is a known issue and already documented somewhere else - probably
one of the bugs marked as a dup of "imap rewrite"
Comment 2 Henry Jia 2003-06-26 04:09:11 UTC 
fejj, pls mark the dup'ed bug id so that the reporter and the people
in the cc list can track the issue. Thx.
Comment 3 Gerardo Marin 2003-06-27 04:00:58 UTC 
Not in the list of IMAP rewrite. Reopening and attaching to that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216927 ***