On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 03:28:17AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > My ISP has temporarily throttled me back to 128Kbps, and viewing email with > attachments has become slower. It made me wonder if mutt could be configured > to only download the main email and leave the attachments behind, but that's > not how attachments work; they are just part of the body. Then I had > flashbacks to when I inherited a sorry webmail program 20 years ago and had > IMAP so memorized that I could read email with a telnet session, and how much > I hated trying to remember what the next sequence number should be. > > So I am asking if someone could kindly refresh my memory on exactly what IMAP > servers do to email they store. Memory says they do not pre-process messages > to break out attachments; that it is not possible for mutt to only download > the basic text or html attachments, and leave all the jpg, gif, pdf, doc, and > other attachments alone until needed to save on the attachments page. Year > of usage have also convinced me that if mutt could save downloading unwanted > attachments, it would, so it probably can't; messages are all or nothing. Is > that correct?
IMAP can serve you all attachments separately and even chunks of bytes at any position of the remotely stored email. No idea how to do it with mutt. Richard -- Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers
