Package: mutt Version: 1.5.20-9+squeeze1 Severity: minor Hello Maintainer,
while this problem exist since ages (Woody or older) here again:
mutt downlods the mailfolder three times and useless
I am on IMAP and a GSM connection which is definitvely costly and slow.
I can open a mailfolder and mutt download the header and cache it in the
header_cache which is OK, but since some of my foldes have 20 and more
MByte in size it is annoying IF mutt download the WHOLE folder again but
now including the Body.
Also this action can not be stoped with ^C.
Since mutt write the infos to the messages if it leafe the folder, it is
absolutely useless to download the WHOLE folder if you want to tag the
messages with e.g. ~N and then if you hit ;N it download the folder
again including the body.
So in summary mut does:
1) While opening the folder read the header
2) While taging with ~N download the folder again but now with body
3) While marking the messaages read with ;N download the folder again
with body
4) Saving or leafing the folder mutt download the folder again with
body which is absolutel useless, because mutt should write only to
the header, but now it upload the whole message to the IMAP
In sumary, mutt has downloader 3 times the complete mailfoder including
the body which is worse!
The headers of the box I use are arround 320 kByte but the whole folder
including the body was 21 MByte...
mutt has produced more then 62 MByte useless traffic on a GSM connection
The only way to stop mutt of downloading the whole folder is to KILL it.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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