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. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
