Re: Mail.app is out of control

From	Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject	Re: Mail.app is out of control
Date	2015-10-07 11:18 +0000
Organization	Ripco Communications Inc.
Message-ID	<mv2v32$j4l$1@remote5bge0.ripco.com> (permalink)
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In comp.sys.mac.system JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> If I recall correctly (which I seldom do), you are an all POP person ,
> right ? This means that your messages are locally stored in Mail.App's
> message stopre as oppoised to Mail storing only headers and a few caches
> message bodies with the rest on the imap server.

That's the way it's supposed to work, but I haven't seen a mail program
recently (including Mail.app) that does that by default using IMAP. They all
seem to default to downloading the headers, message body and attachments
unless a user is aware of it and turns that off.

In the current Mail.app it's under Preferences -> Viewing and if that "Load
remote content in Messages" is checked, you are getting everything, headers
and body.

It's still better to use IMAP instead of pop3 but I think except for phones
and tablets on limited data plans (non-wifi connections), with most people
on some kind of high speed broadband (instead of dialup), sending the
headers/body using IMAP by default makes more sense.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com

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  Re: Mail.app is out of control John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-10-06 09:14 -0700
    Re: Mail.app is out of control Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-10-06 09:35 -0700
  Re: Mail.app is out of control Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-06 13:34 -0400
    Re: Mail.app is out of control Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-10-06 11:30 -0700
      Re: Mail.app is out of control Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-10-06 11:53 -0700
        Re: Mail.app is out of control JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-06 19:32 -0400
          Re: Mail.app is out of control Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-10-06 17:21 -0700
          Re: Mail.app is out of control Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2015-10-07 11:18 +0000
            Re: Mail.app is out of control Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 16:20 +0000
              Re: Mail.app is out of control Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2015-10-07 20:30 +0000
        Re: Mail.app is out of control Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-06 20:59 -0400
          Re: Mail.app is out of control Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-10-06 18:30 -0700
        Re: Mail.app is out of control Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2015-10-19 12:17 +0000

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