On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:23:30AM +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:06:14AM +0000, Chris G wrote: >> Are they on your LAN? Using IMAP across the internet (even with a >> good ADSL connection) can never really be as quick as a local mbox >> spool, especially if you're dealing with attachments and such. Think >> about it - a 1Mbyte attachment is going to take some seconds to pull >> across even a 2 or 3Mb/s ADSL link whereas it's going to be near >> instantanous from a local file. > > Sorry, but I think, here you are wrong. Good IMAP-Clients don’t download > the attachments without your interaction (at least you can configure them > in such a way). So the reading of the mails should be fast in both ways. > But if you wish to open an attachment, IMAP is better than using SSH and > local spool.
Is there a way to view the body of an imap message without mutt actually fetching (not saving) all attachments? Fetching a 5-10mb attachment just to view the body text is a significant annoyance when I'm away from my local work LAN. I'd like to be able to view the body text and have mutt fetch the attachments only when I hit "v" -> "return" to view the attachment. > With IMAP you only download the attachment, and then the > local application will deal with it. With SSH and local spool you must > start the application remote. >
