On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 18:06, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > Clients can already derive this information from the bodystructure > response. And the concept of an "attachment" is context sensitive. Is > an inline image an attachment? How about a second text/plain part? Only > the client can determine if a body section deserves an "attachment" > label; the server certainly cannot decide this on the clients behalf.
Right, but the server can determine if the message definitely does not have an attachment, and most messages don't. Then there's no need to fetch bodystructure for just that information.
