Configure email to not download attachments?
 

Is there any way to edit the email client (Modest I believe?) to prevent it from downloading attachments. Preferably this would be changed to not download until I choose to do so, although not at all would be even better.

I can find no such configuration in the program so I'm guessing it'd have to be via the terminal manually editing something...

Re: Configure email to not download attachments?
 

Uh, it already doesn't download attachments until you specifically tell it to do so by clicking on the file name.

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I've sent myself an email with a known file size attachment and with background checking on it definitely downloaded it automatically from my hotmail account (via pop3). The amount of data transferred was impossible by just downloading headers or even the text content of this one email (which was "HELLO").

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@Stopgap

I've tried to get this, too. I've filled a bug report, then I was told to create a brainstorm and so on. If we can get more people to ask for it, then maybe we can have some attention and the developers could allocate some time to implementing this.

Take a look at the email part of my signature, vote for it and help get more attention for this issue.

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Done :)

Coming from a Symbian N95 which had a full set of controls (however quirky) for stuff like this, I'm disappointed with the lack of email functionality more than any other feature of the phone. It just doesn't cut the mustard - this needs to be at least as good as Symbian phones! At the moment I just cannot use the phone for automatic email checking, it is too unconfigurable and hence potentially a risk of massive data downloads and charges thereafter.

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I've come from a 5800 and previously an N95 and the email frustrates me too. In fact I am weighing up if I can justify the cost of this phone. My previous very cheap phone did all I wanted except the browser was rubbish (and the battery scale totally wrong). I feel this phone has the battery scale sorted, and an amazing browser, but the email is rubbish, amongst other things.

Also why does the delete option not delete the email from the server as well, this was configurable in symbian S60.

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Very helpful would be an option in the account settings to enable/disable an account. On the N900 I can only delete an account completely. It would be nice to be able to disable an account with heavy traffic when on a trip and reenable it again when back home or at a place with cheap WiFi network. (I do this all the time with my MacBook when travelling.)

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POP3 has no support for selective download of MIME parts.

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Yes. There are some limitations for POP3. But still there are things that could be done around it. For instance:

1. Download only headers and show the total email size with an option to download the rest;
2. Download only emails under a specified size - this could avoid the worst problem that is downloading huge files because of attachments
3. Enable and disable accounts, as it was suggested a couple posts ago
4. Configure settings for off-line/on-line email reading, based on connection type and/or name
5. Last, but not least, there is the (maybe) hackish approach that is used by Windows Mobile to download only the first few specified KBs.

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HELP! I bought N900 and did not know how to stop downloading attachments - I would like to download only specific parts of emails (headers and body) and download attachments only on request.

It was possible in all my previous nokia's - even last E90. Is it possible in N900? Maybe you could suggest any alternative email clinet?