[imp] IMP can't open message

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at mail.curecanti.org
Wed Nov 30 08:07:02 PST 2005


Quoting Alex Ng <ngstylez at gmail.com>:

> THE BIGGER PROBLEM (I think): IMP loads the entire attachment once you click
> on the message.  I find this as a big problem because it is absurd to have
> the entire attachment loaded into the server's memory just to view the body
> of the message.  I am still trying to find the answer to how to configure
> IMP to NOT download the attachment unless you really want to.

No, this is not true unless you are using POP.  If using IMAP, IMP will 
only download MIME body parts from the server if the part is being 
viewed inline.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]


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