You can use fetch bodystructure, it should contain all information such as attachment names etc. and then there is SNIPPET support also in 2.2.36, which lets you fetch a 100 character snippet of the mail.
Aki On 15.11.2018 11.57, Alessio Cecchi wrote: > > Hello, > > we are developing a web page, for a ticket system, to show the email > messages ordered by the biggest attachments size present in an IMAP > folder, with a pagination of 100 messages per page. Each raw > represents a message with "DATE, FROM, SUBJECT, the preview (the first > 500 chars of the text/html of the messsage) and the list of the > attachments (name + size) it contains. > > The problem is that the page load is VERY slow because we fetch the > entire BODY of all 100 messages, in order to get the preview and the > attachments name and size. > > Now, considering that each messages can contain up to 50 MB of > attachments, we risk to download 5000MB from IMAP for every page. > > An option might be to perform two FETCH for each message: > > - one fetch with just the BODYSTRUCTURE (where we can get the > attachments name and size and the text/html parts). > > - one fetch with the body parts (BODY.PEEK[]) we need to build the > preview (text + html). > > We are wondering if there is a single FETCH command to get the text > and html parts (needed to build the preview) with only the name and > the size of the attachments without downloading the entire message. > > Thanks. > > -- > Alessio Cecchi > Postmaster @ http://www.qboxmail.it > https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice
