> 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

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