Thanks to all. I think collectively you've given me good clarification
of something I was mis-understanding.

C.Nailz

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 12:17 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 10:49 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 
> > > The email I'm focusing on included this statement in the message
> > source:
> > > "This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not
> > > understand this format, some or all of this message may not be
> > legible."
> > > Why would Evolution not understand MIME format?
> > 
> > You're misreading the statement (which could be better phrased in
> > fact).
> > What it's saying is that Evo knows this is a MIME attachment but can't
> > figure out what type it is since the header doesn't say.
> 
>       Hi,
> I believe the above "message" isn't shown in Evolution, it's in the
> message source, and it's a fallback message in some multipart MIME
> messages for readers, which doesn't support MIME format (are there still
> any?). Evo supports it, thus doesn't show it, but shows the message
> content.
> 
> Carpet, it's generated on the sender's side as well as the whole message
> you see in message source.
>       Bye,
>       Milan
> 
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