Re: Anticipatory header downloadwrote:

On 5/12/2015 1:16 PM, John C Klensin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Apparently you don't end up on slow and metered/expensive
> connections in developing countries, using an IMAP computer over
> a cellular roaming connections (or its satellite equivalent) and
> high cost per megabyte, or dealing with a connection so fragile
> that the issue is less the amount of data transferred by whether
> you can keep the connection up long enough to transfer it.  If
> so, lucky you.

True - but I'd say more 'lucky 90% of the IMAP using world that cares'...

> Sigh.  Consider trying to use a public-user computer in the
> lobby or a hotel or one in a pool area within a university.  You
> could, of course, use a webmail client instead... if the mail
> server administrators were willing to allow one of those given
> that _their_ caching, data exposure, and, in many cases,
> business models tend to expose a lot of information.
> 
> Again, may not be important to you, but different people have
> different needs.

True - but I don't see the relevancy. In the above case, are you
suggesting that a user could then download, install, configure and use
Mulberry? I highly doubt it. Those kinds of computers are usually
tightly locked down.