[Dovecot] [Dovecot 1.1.3] Strange problem with attachment download

[Charles Marcus]

On 9/24/2008 1:03 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Ed W escreveu:
>> Actually I agree with the OP.  Thunderbird "works" with attachments, but
>> it's handling seems very creaky... (I'm a big fan of TB by the way!)
>>
>> Stuff which annoys me is that it seems to download the attachment every
>> time it's needed and in particular it seems to download it instantly as
>> soon as you open a message (OE only downloads the text and gets the
>> attachment only if you access it - I get a bunch of MB sized attachments
>> from time to time and opening these messages just to review the text of
>> the message is very slow and ponderous)
> 
> That's what I had in mind. It receives the whole message (including
> attachments), and after it's finished, if you want to save/view the
> attachment, it downloads it again!

Ah, ok, that is true then... TBird certainly isn't perfect, but its one
of the most stable/reliable IMAP clients I've used...

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Best regards,

Charles