How to limit Apple Mail (desktop)?

Rupert Gallagher ruga at protonmail.com
Tue Oct 31 15:46:03 EET 2017


Aki, the IMAP client can receive the e-mails with an empty body without any damage. This is how IMAP works normally. The full body is queried again by the client when reading the e-mail for real.

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote:

>>> What's in your mind as solution?

>> When dovecot receives many full body downloads from a client, it could respond by sending the header only.

> This sounds rather dangerous. Client is expecting full body download, not headers. Aki


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