258571 - Mozilla/Mozilla Thunderbird always downloads message body of mails after headers are done

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, enhancement)

Description

[Christopher Chan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: 

Although no offline usage was ticked, Mozilla and Mozilla Thunderbird latest
will all happily start download all message bodies after the message headers are
done. This is a waste of bandwidth and if I wanted to download the bodies of all
the mails, I would have chosen pop instead of imap. 

This behaviour started after the Junk Mail feature was added to Mozilla/Mozilla
Thunderbird. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup a new imap account
2. Login
3. Watch mozilla/mozilla thunderbird download all headers and then watch it
start download all the bodies one by one.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla/Mozilla Thunderbird started downloading all the message bodies one by one.

Expected Results:  
It should have just downloaded the headers and stop. It should only download the
body when I click on the mail.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Related/Dupe of Bug 249643

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219715 ***

Comment 3

[Christopher Chan]

1) IMAP allows you the option to download headers only.
2) Server-side junkmail filtering still exists.
3) No option to turn off junk mail controls introduces wasted cpu cycles and
bandwidth where someone has 2) and wants 1)

Comment 4

[Christopher Chan]

let me word that better. An option to turn on/off adaptive filtering per account
would be nice.

Comment 5

[Christopher Chan]

I have found out that you can turn on/off adaptive filtering per account. Thanks