[Users] [Bug 2035] don't download attachments when opening mail for reading

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Wed Aug 26 09:45:04 CEST 2015


http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2035

--- Comment #9 from Ricardo Mones <mones at users.sourceforge.net> ---
(In reply to comment #7)
>
> Now, about the possibility to optionally skip downloading attachements. I
> have no clue how this can be done but I can admit that it might may sense
> for some, and I see that as a pertinent request for feature/enhancement.

In theory this is possible and seems to have libetpan support¹, as it has IMAP
functions to fetch body structure and fetch separate body parts².

There's some limitations: encrypted mails and have to be downloaded completely.

Just in case somebody is planning to implement this... ;-)

¹
https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/search?p=3&q=BODYSTRUCTURE&utf8=%E2%9C%93
² https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-6.4.5

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