On 06/07/2012 09:25 PM, Michael M Slusarz wrote: > Quoting Claude Tompers <[email protected]>: > >> On 06/07/2012 09:18 PM, Michael M Slusarz wrote: >>> Quoting Claude Tompers <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I've got complaints from some users that the attachment icon is not >>>> always shown in the mail list. >>>> In at least one case, I could reproduce this. Is this a known issue ? >>> >>> No. Please read the archives. The short answer is that what users >>> think are attachments are NOT attachments - they are instead part of >>> a MIME container element. >>> >>> michael >> In this specific case it was a pdf document. I guess that one should >> be an attachment ? > > No. It is probably a part of a multipart/alternative container. So > it is, by definition, NOT an attachment (since multipart/alternative > parts can NEVER contain attachments - that's why they are > multipart/alternative). > > The message was probably sent from Apple Mail. Which is known to be > terribly broken when it comes to e-mail. > > michael > > ___________________________________ > Michael Slusarz [[email protected]] >
Hi Michael, You guessed right, multipart/alternative and sent with Apple Mail. Thanks for the explanations. I have just one remaining question. Why not displaying this like an attachment since it is on from a standard user's point of view. Aren't other mail client's doing this too ? (thinking of Thunderbird for example) kind regards, Claude -- Claude Tompers Ingénieur réseau et système Fondation RESTENA - Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi L-1359 Luxembourg Tel: +352 424409 1 Fax: +352 422473
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