379195 - Takes time to open emails with large attachments when don't need to view attachments

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 337393

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Sriram Parameswaran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.0

I have several emails in my inbox with large attachments.  Every time I click on the email, it takes ages to open - the time being proportional to the size of the attachment.  Often, I do not want to view the attachment but just the email contents (I may just view the attachments the first time and not thereafter).

It would be good if the email opens instantaneously but a trip is made to the server only if the user attempts to open the attachment.

The other issue is that you cannot navigate away if you click such an email.  The workaround I use is to click some other folder and then return to this folder and click some other email.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to your Inbox
2.  Click on an email with a large attachment (e.g. a Word document).  To see this, you must have a slow connection - for e.g. in my connection, it takes about 2-3 mins to open a 5 MB attachment

Actual Results:  
It takes several minutes to open up such emails.

Expected Results:  
The email should open immediately (based on the size of the text within).  The attachment should open only if the user specifically tries to download them.

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