Rodrigo Readi wrote in <CABdqxFfCy38pS1Ww96jW0_pux9L=0+qwsdvq4ha6yig5jxn...@mail.gmail.com>: |2023-02-17 19:16 GMT, Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu>: |>|>> modern requirements (html-mail, attachements). |> |> These both s-nail can (the former likely via mailcap). | |Yes, as I did it with BSD mail. | |But the main problem remains: with s-nail and mutt you have to |download all attachments |even if you only want to read the text. | |Alpine source comes with the old (unfortunately unmantained) UW imap, |the reference |implementation of imap. Alpine client has better imap support.
S-nail surely has the weakest IMAP support of the three. mutt can for example use IMAP compression. (Other than that i do not know much of their sources, even though i track both git's.) Well. S-nail can fetch only headers, but if you want to read/save/xy a message then the entire content is downloaded. Maybe an idea to keep in mind for (much) later. For me personally this is uninteresting, i pre-filter on the server and the rest i fetch from within S-nail via SSH, like that i do not need an additional IMAP daemon :). (Actually the development version contains undocumented code to trim messages, one could store and download the trimmed ones. This was meant for a mailing-list implemenation hack that yet did not spring into existence. Whatever.) Well i do not know, mostly if i want to read an email as via looking at the header i need it all; my SMTP server also has a strict size limit, and moreover do not receive (a lot of) multimedia attachments. If, that would surely be a problem. I find that unfriendly, one sometimes sees that on OpenBSD @misc, or huge tgz on @ports; i'd rather like to see an external URL then. There is even an email standard for that, message/external-body;access-type=URL (RFC 2017). But any URL would do. |And xoath2 for gmail is other story. I regret that I began using gmail. --End of <CABdqxFfCy38pS1Ww96jW0_pux9L=0+QwsdVQ4HA6yig5JXNnSQ@mail.gmail\ .com> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
