that's because that *is* what the last part is :-)

Jeff

On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 22:05, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> Interesting, but Evolution 1.2.1 (and 1.0.8 before it) only showed the
> list server appended signature to me, and none of the message body.  I
> was hoping that forwarding it as an attachment (rather than in line)
> would have the same effect.  It's odd, but this only seems to happen
> with [some] mail from that list, and it only chokes when I view it with
> Evolution.  (In other words, Evolution seems to do fine with mail from
> all of my other sources, and kmail and mutt seem to display the body of
> these messages.)  Apparently, Evolution is seeing the list signature as
> the last alternative of the body of the message.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 21:11, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > If you take a look at the message source, you'll find that the message
> > is a multipart/alternativewhich means that there are several
> > "alternative" views of the same[1] message body which are listed in
> > reverse preference order (last part is the most preferred, first part is
> > the least preferred).
> > 
> > What a mail client is supposed to do is show the *last* part which it is
> > capable of displaying, which is exactly what Evolution is doing.
> > 
> > I don't know what can be done as obviously it would not be good to show
> > the user all versions of the body (imagine reading multiple copies of
> > the same message all in a row - we'd probably get thousands of bug
> > reports about a bug in evolution that showed multiple copies of the same
> > message).
> > 
> > [1] obviously, the content *does* differ. usually you'll have 1 version
> > in text/html format and one in text/plain (and possibly one in
> > text/richtext or text/enriched or something).
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 20:43, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > > The attached message shows up blank in my copy of Evolution 1.2.1.  I
> > > get a lot of messages from that particular list which show up blank in
> > > evolution, but are readable in kmail.  Any ideas?
-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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