Quoting Claude Tompers <[email protected]>:
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
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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)
Please read the archives for full discussion. In short: there is
nothing special about a PDF file, in and of itself, that makes it an
attachment. A text/plain part can be an attachment. It solely
depends on the MIME structure of the original message.
In this case, the sender has SPECIFICALLY INDICATED, BY SENDING AS A
MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE MESSAGE, THAT THEY DON'T CARE IF THE USER CAN'T
VIEW THE PDF PART. THEY HAVE SPECIFICALLY INDICATED THAT THIS PART
SHOULD **NOT** BE SHOWN TO THE USER IF THE MUA DOES NOT SUPPORT (OR
EVEN WANT TO) DISPLAY THAT PART INLINE. THAT'S WHAT
MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE MEANS.
Apple is worth $600 billion dollars and they can't hire a engineer
that understands this. Blows my mind.
michael
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Michael Slusarz [[email protected]]
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