> You'll notice that your attached message text is a > multipart/alternative. Each part in a multipart/alternative is supposed > to be an alternative way of viewing the message (hence the name). This > means that you can either view the text/plain part, the text/html part, > OR the application/zip part - but not all 3. Evolution chooses to > display the text/html part because that is the richest way of viewing a > message that Evolution supports (this is what the mailer is supposed to > do). > > So technically, Evolution is doing EXACTLY what the specification says > to do... the problem is that the mailer that sent you this message is > NOT doing what the specification says to do. Thus, the mailer that sent > this message is broken. > > Mutt displays the zip file because mutt does not respect the > multipart/alternative spec. > > We are wworking on finding a hackish solution to detect when mailers > send us (Evolution) broken multipart/alternative (and multipart/related) > messages that *SHOULD* have been declared as multipart/mixed instead.
What exmh does (and I like it) is to have a right-click menu enabled for multipart/alternatives that allows you to choose between the alternatives. - Ian _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
