537945 - allow preference to not download attachments for offline use

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 508276

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Description

[R.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_2; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Safari/531.21.10
Build Identifier: 3.0

It will be convenient to have the Mail.app-like option to download only messages but omit attachments for offline viewing. This is relevant now as more people like me are using webmail (gmail) for actual message viewing/manipulation and prefer to use imap for quick checking/notification.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[cantalou]

For GMail account and I assume for all IMAP mail server there is a limit to message size to download.

Go to Tools => Account Setting
Choose your mail account

Go to: Synchronization & Storage
Check "Don't download messages larger than:" and give a limit

For this workaround, you must assume that a message with an attachement is larger that the given limit.

Hope it'll help you

Comment 2

[R.]

I still won't be able to automatically download the text of messages with large attachments, for offline use.

Incidentally, in the Thunderbird 3 preferences, the preference pane has a bug whereby even after I've specified a custom maximum size for messages to download, it shows me the default value (50KB). However, I found that the value is updated in prefs.js in the profile folder. But this bug needs to be reported elsewhere and is not connected with this enhancement request.

Comment 3

[rsx11m]

The UI bug for download size is covered in bug 485785, and there are various bugs pending on limiting the amount of data downloaded kept in the offline store. Your description comes closest to bug 508276, which changed focus a couple of times though since it was opened. There is also bug 506024 to limit the synchronization download rate in general, which would equally affect both attachments and message content. Related is the discussion in bug 345832, these issues become relevant when attachments are not held in the offline storage.

Comment 4

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

I agree to comment #3: it's a dupe of bug #508276 and should be close as dupe.