Rob Lingelbach wrote: > >on further investigation, it appears Apple's Mail.app is behaving >unexpectedly >with MIME format digests, when compared to mail(1), mutt(1), and the >web-based >Squirrelmail. Mail.app doesn't present separators in any predictable >fashion, and >includes huge amounts of white space, with no individually-viewable >message option, >as far as I can tell.
Apple's Mail.app is designed to allow you to compose a plain text message and to drag and drop almost anything into it. Unlike other MUAs which do this by creating a multipart/related message with a text/html part that references other 'attached' parts by Content-ID, Mail.app just creates a multipart/mixed message with a bunch of text/plain parts interspersed with image/jpeg, etc. parts, so when it receives a multipart message, it essentially just concatenates all the part contents inline. This works well for mail it created, but not for standards compliant mail, and it doesn't always work well when it's messages are viewed with another MUA. <editorial comment withheld> >Incidentally Squirrelmail, my last-resort reader, presents the >messages quite nicely >as a formatted list of attachments. I have a feeling mutt(1) could do >the same thing >with a bit of tweaking. I use the 'v' command in mutt to see the attachment list. Then I can select an individual message (attachment), open it, read it and reply to it as if I had received the individual mail. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
