Michelle Konzack <linux4miche...@tamay-dogan.net> writes: > There is NO way for the MUA or IMAP server, to select which part of the > body should be downloaded.
Yes there is. This is in the IMAP protocol, see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2060.html. " 2.4. Message Texts In addition to being able to fetch the full [RFC-822] text of a message, IMAP4rev1 permits the fetching of portions of the full message text. Specifically, it is possible to fetch the [RFC-822] message header, [RFC-822] message body, a [MIME-IMB] body part, or a [MIME-IMB] header. " On the MUA side, mutt does not handle it, but others (at least alpine) do. -- Nicolas