Allegedly, on or about 5 April 2018, Samuel Sieb sent:
Yes, as I suspected, Evolution just grabs the whole message instead
of asking the server about the different parts. I think that means
that Thunderbird would be able to show the message without
downloading any large attachments, but Evolution will not show the
message until the whole thing is downloaded. Anyway, the Yahoo IMAP
implementation apparently doesn't like what Thunderbird is asking for
and chokes.
While I know that an IMAP server *can* be asked to send the message
(text portion) and separately deal with attachments (ignore or fetch),
I understood this to be a rarely implemented feature (on client or
server). And I'd be rather surprised that it would work with a large
mail with numerous sections/attachments (such as MIME digest mail).
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.15.10-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 17:14:41 UTC 2018 x86_64
Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see
the messages posted to the mailing list.
Linux servers are always being dæmonised...