Re: [PLUG] Top-posting

Malcolm J Harwood on 20 Sep 2016 20:06:49 -0700

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Re: [PLUG] Top-posting

From: Malcolm J Harwood <mjhlists-plug-20080906@liminalflux.net>
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Top-posting
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:06:11 -0400
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On 9/18/2016 12:27 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:

I really don't want an email client downloading 7.5G of files just to
figure out what tags they have.  This stuff really needs to be handled
at the protocol level and server-side.

That's why imap supports fetching just the headers. So you can do local metadata searcheswithout getting all the (presumably larger) messages.

Though if that 7.5G is mostly small messages (like this one), it probably wouldn't gainyou much.

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Follow-Ups:
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References:
- [PLUG] Replacement mailing list idea
  - From: "Rich Mingin (PLUG)" <plug@frags.us>
- Re: [PLUG] Replacement mailing list idea
  - From: "Rich Mingin (PLUG)" <plug@frags.us>
- Re: [PLUG] Replacement mailing list idea
  - From: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
- [PLUG] Top-posting (was: Replacement mailing list idea)
  - From: JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>
- Re: [PLUG] Top-posting (was: Replacement mailing list idea)
  - From: Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
- Re: [PLUG] Top-posting (was: Replacement mailing list idea)
  - From: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
- Re: [PLUG] Top-posting (was: Replacement mailing list idea)
  - From: Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
- Re: [PLUG] Top-posting (was: Replacement mailing list idea)
  - From: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
- Re: [PLUG] Top-posting (was: Replacement mailing list idea)
  - From: Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
- Re: [PLUG] Top-posting (was: Replacement mailing list idea)
  - From: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
- Re: [PLUG] Top-posting (was: Replacement mailing list idea)
  - From: Christopher Barry <christopher.r.barry@gmail.com>
- Re: [PLUG] Top-posting (was: Replacement mailing list idea)
  - From: Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
- Re: [PLUG] Top-posting (was: Replacement mailing list idea)
  - From: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
- Re: [PLUG] Top-posting (was: Replacement mailing list idea)
  - From: Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
- Re: [PLUG] Top-posting
  - From: Malcolm J Harwood <mjhlists-plug-20080906@liminalflux.net>
- Re: [PLUG] Top-posting
  - From: brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com>
- Re: [PLUG] Top-posting
  - From: Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>

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