Mike Macgirvin wrote:
> > WIth the small attachments button being the only indicatior for
> > attachments, and the fact that inline stuff like vCards counts as
> > attachments, it is currently very easy to overlook attachments.
>
> Way too easy. I've ended up deleting msgs that seemed to have no
> intrinsic value only to be told later that they contained important
> attachmments that would now have to be resent.
>
> > Thinking about 4.x, a solution seems easy: Just put a note at the
> > end of the body, that there are attachments, in they aren't all
> > inline. Or, imitate 4.x completely and add links for each of the
> > non-inline attachments. Shouldn't be hard and completely solves the
> > problem.
>
> The first solution is just a tease. Yeah, you've got attachments but
> we're not going to tell you how to see them, or what type they are. And
> of course, why would you want to ever know something like how big they are?
>
> Add the links.
If we are going to have them at the end I think a table with icon,
name/link, type and size would be both informative and easy to use.
Maybe the type (I was thinking MIME type) would be a little too technical.
/Daniel
