On Saturday 2020-12-05 17:27, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 05.12.20 15:55, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Ah, of course, Alpine only caches the headers (I don't know if all). But in RAM, so the cache dies on existing the program.
And what alpine does [..] is it downloads only the headers it really needs to show you your selection. [...] This is a huge advantage if you are opening a mailbox with 100k mails.
But face it: headers alone are quite worthless, aggraviated by a handful of people completely unable to write a reasonable Subject: line. The bonus I see in text-based MUAs is that you can ssh into a machine and get the text rendition. If all you need (or want) to see is the first page of the mail, that's just some 2KB worth of transmission - given the email bloat of the 21st century, that can be quite a godsend.