On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:32:29 +1100, Alexander Griesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:

> Hi folks!
>
> Today a workmate asked me for help with sending textfiles as attachments
> to e-mails because he wasn't able to download the attached files on the
> target machine.
> After a lot of trying and debugging we found out some quite interesting
> things which I would like to discuss here.
>
> Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. do all support showing the plain text
> attachments inline + showing them as (downloadable) attachments.
>
> The webinterfaces of GMX, Gmail, etc. don't support this while Horde's
> Imp (I think this is what most universities and most Austrian providers
> use) works fine with plaintext attachments, e.g. you can see the
> attachments inlined after the original message and you can download them
> file by file as attachments.
>
> As to my understanding, this is the expected behaviour. I tried with
> Roundcube (probably not the latest version I have to admit) and it
> behaved exactly the same as all other webmails did: No chance to
> download the plaintext files separately.
>
> What do you guys think about it? Personally I think it would make sense
> to implement this and allow for downloading plain text attachments - or
> is this functionality already implemented in the latest roundcube
> version?
>
> ciao,

That would be a vital feature that i'd like to see and has been in the  
back of my mind for sometime.
Email content should be accessible in all forms for download/export  
regardless of their 'part' in the mail.
Text extracts should be easily downloaded, copied to clipboard etc. like  
source code/paste bins etc.

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