Re: Email programs that work.

["Dmitri Minaev" <minaev@gmail.com>]

On 9/6/06, Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> wrote:
> > Still, there are some unpleasant problems I couldn't solve. The worst
> > one was that Mutt downloads the whole message. That is, it does not
> > support selective retrieval of MIME parts, AFAIU.
>
> I do not know one single IMAP client which can do this...
> Even under <brr>Windows</brr>

Pine has been doing this for years. Mulberry and Netscape/Mozilla
mail, too. I would say, it's a rather common feature of IMAP clients.

BTW, I have found this message from Elkins in the mutt-user mailing
list ( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.user/7995 ):
> I would like mutt to not automatically download the attachement when
> they are too big.

There isn't any way to do this with Mutt.  It will always download the
entire message and parse it locally.  PINE might be a better option for
you if this is important.

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With best regards,
Dmitri Minaev