Am 14.04.2011 20:49, schrieb Donn Cave:
Quoth "Ingo Weinhold"<ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>, ...From a brief look at a few example multipart mails in my inbox, there isn't any kind of table of contents referring to the parts; they are simply separated by a boundary string. So to be able to publish the internal structure of the mail one would have to parse it completely, which means downloading it completely.It's done by the server, acquired via FETCH BODYSTRUCTURE. Otherwise, client doesn't know the structure of the message and has to download the entire message contents all at once, whether wanted or not. I think it's a valuable feature, but maybe that's just me.
It's indeed valuable and Thunderbird at least seems to use it to let me read mails with larger attachments without actually downloading those. At least I sometimes get a download progress report when storing attachments.
Best regards, -Stephan