> Hi all, > > I continue here a discussion you can find in this post: > http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2008/06/24/big-day-for-modest-and-tinymail > (Just read the comments). > > This is my idea: I don't want to be able to download 15.000+ messages. > I just want to download ONLY last 50, 100, 200 at maximum. Modest > doesn't behave in this way now. Even if you set the option "just > download ONLY 50 items". Maybe a bug? Don't know...
Ok, I'll try to explain what happens here, many people have the same doubts you mention. It's very important to distinguish between two concepts, the mail header and the mail message. The mail header is what you see at the right pane in the modest window. It's not the full email message, it's just a very tiny piece of information with the very basic data about the message. The headers are _always_ downloaded, but this does not mean that the full email message is always downloaded. This means that if a mate send you a 10Mb email with his last photos, Modest won't download it for you unless you try to open the message saving you money if you're connected by GPRS and bandwidth anyway. Modest setting about download only 50,100,200... last messages, only applies if you have selected download "messages and attachments". Take into account that clicking on to a folder won't download the full messages never, that setting only applies when you click on "send & receive" button, or menu option. > I think the minimum number of messages should be the default value, > then it should let the user keep a maximum of x messages (where x is a > value that user can choose). When 200th message arrives, just drop the > first one and so on... (just like a FIFO queue with a maximum number > of items). Sounds good my idea? I think that Modest could manage 200 > messages quite good. As I said before, even if 2000 new messages arrive Modest won't download them unless you selected to retrieve full messages. Thank you for your comments. Br _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
