Thunderbird mail preview?

cormie

Hi,
I hear there's a way you can see what emails await you in thunderbird before actually downloading them? Right now, if somebody sends me a 1mb email and I don't know about it, and then if say 3 other people send me emails too, I might have to download the 1mb file first before I can see the other ones. This isn't a problem with broadband, but if I'm out an about with my oh so terrible 3 worse than dial up "broadband", it can take an age to download and might disconnect too so I hear there is a way I can see the mails through thunderbird and just download the headers or something, then when I open them, it downloads them?

How can I set this up does anyone know?

Any feedback appreciated

Jonathan

Try to find an option to only download the headers first.

Ghost Train

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Download_only_certain_POP_messages#Automating_which_message_bodies_are_downloaded

cormie

cool thanks a lot, that was much easier than I thought. I was told something about imap instead of pop3?..