don't fetch attachments from imap by default

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek jeffpc at josefsipek.net
Thu Nov 17 13:49:38 UTC 2022


On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 10:49:25 +0100, Christopher Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> mostly I'm only interested in the message text body, not possibly large 
> attachments. Is it possible to configure mutt to not fetch the whole 
> message, but only the text part, so that opening multi-megabyte messages 
> gets faster and using less bandwidth ?

Back in 2016 there was a long-standing ticket [1] to implement imap4 partial
fetch.  I couldn't find equivalent ticket in the gitlab issue tracker [2].

Jeff.

[1] http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3465
[2] https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/issues/


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