Hello Len, you have written: > emails received > with a > Content-Type of "multipart/alternative" for some reason will not display an > attachment or indicate that an attachment is there.
The reason is that it should be like this: “multipart/alternative” means that there are several alternative presentation forms (like different languages or different data formats) for essentially the same information; hence the MUA should present only one of these alternatives to the user. Cf. RFC 2046, section 5.1.4 <http://rfc-ref.org/RFC-TEXTS/2046/chapter5.html#sub1sub4>. Another short example can be found in: <http://www.systems.uni-konstanz.de/Otto/Vortrag/E-Mail/Kopfzeilen.html#MM-alternative>. Hence, rather the sending software should be fixed. Still, you can tell Imp to display the alternative parts to the user, as you have described already; this would help to cope with broken software on the sending side, but will probably confuse the readers of the popular multipart/alternativ(text/plain+text/html) type messages. Best wishes, Otto Stolz -- IMP mailing list - Join the hunt: http://horde.org/bounties/#imp Frequently Asked Questions: http://horde.org/faq/ To unsubscribe, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
