232410 - mail attachments should *not* be downloaded automatically

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 124865

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, enhancement)

Description

[Sven Fink]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

when selecting a message for display, the mail attachment will downloaded
automatically. on a slow connection this download leads to a long and
unnessessary delay until you can read your message. in a lot of cases you do not
want or need to see this attachment, so it should be an option (configurable) to
download an attachment when opening a mail or when selecting an attachment file
for download within an opened mail. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[WD]

Is this even possible?    Attachments are part of the message body until
processed by the mail client.

Comment 2

[Malcolm Rowe]

If the server's IMAP, we can (in theory) request the different parts of a MIME-
encoded message separately, I think.

On POP3, we've no choice but to retrieve the entire message.

Comment 3

[Scott Kitterman]

In any case, this should be severity enhancement, vice a bug.

Comment 4

[Max Alekseyev]

->enhancement

Comment 5

[Sven Fink]

This request is for IMAP only.
It should be possible, for example the Solaris CDE email client dtmail can
handle mail attachments in this way.

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124865 ***

Comment 7

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Cleanup *dupeme* whiteboard flag from bugs that are marked as Resolved Duplicate!