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. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
