On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 00:25, Larry Osterman wrote: > > Outlook and OE for example don't want BODY, BODYSTRUCTURE or ENVELOPE. > > Caching any of them for these clients is just waste of disk > > space and disk I/O. > > Don't use Outlook/OE as examples. They're really POP3 clients on > steroids as opposed to being "real" IMAP clients.
They're still one of the most commonly used IMAP clients, which means that servers have to be able to deal with them well. But for other client examples, several clients are fetching headers with BODY[HEADER*] instead of ENVELOPE. Evolution and Sylpheed at least.
