Re: What is Content-Type: text/html, and Body parts are not necessary attachments (was: Address book weirdness)
Hello Marck, Saturday, August 4, 2018, 2:44:58 AM, you wrote: > I wouldn't like to see TB functionality compromised by smoothing out > that interface element at the expense of the ability to save message > parts externally in the correct content-type file type. > Perhaps a switchable option to "Attachments: Show all parts / Show > only real attachments" would provide the flexibility for power and > standard users alike. Thank you. That's all I'm asking for. I've no desire to make the program less flexible, I just want a "Friendly" button so when I install it at a clients, wife included, they don't say, this is to confusing. Heck, most of the time I wish all that stuff was hidden. It's not often I care about the structure of an email, I just want to read it and open or save the attachments if there are any. -- Ira Current beta is 8.5.8.2 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: What is Content-Type: text/html, and Body parts are not necessary attachments (was: Address book weirdness)
Guten Tag, Marck Pearlstone, am Samstag, 4. August 2018 um 11:44 schrieben Sie: > In which case, I can see and sympathise with the point Ira made that > an email consisting only of an HTML part shouldn't be showing as an > attachment. First, I had no chance of seeing a message with a single body part of text/html. Second, TheBat! is wrong by calling the individual body parts "attachments", as in the menu which is called in German "Arbeitsplatz" (and in English probably work space? desk top?) where the fifth menu entry claims to provide configuration for how to show "attachments". On the other hand, it is nice when I can see all the various body parts, but normally they are accessible also by the tabs at the bottom of the message content (sub-) window. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Lüko Willms mailto:wil...@luekowillms.de Current beta is 8.5.8.2 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: What is Content-Type: text/html, and Body parts are not necessary attachments (was: Address book weirdness)
On 04 August 2018 at 10:25 Lüko Willms wrote and made these points LW> please excuse me to break in again, but here a correction is called for: ... >> Because it's not the message. The only way of using HTML for email is >> to make it an attachment. It's how email works. LW>This is wrong. This is not how Internet email works today. ... LW>A single body part can be text, binary, or application LW> specific, and if it is text, the content-type would be mostly text/html or text/plain.[1] ... LW>Marck Pearlstone is wrong writing "The only way of using HTML LW> for email is to make it an attachment." Thanks for this correction. You are absolutely right. LW>Look at Ira's message which Marck Pearlstone is replying to, identified by these headers: ... >> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable LW> and this single body part was certainly not an "attachment". LW> There was no other body part in it. LW> But the mailing list processor Mailman added another body part with the headers ... LW> and only content being the footer for this mailing list ... In which case, I can see and sympathise with the point Ira made that an email consisting only of an HTML part shouldn't be showing as an attachment. I wouldn't like to see TB functionality compromised by smoothing out that interface element at the expense of the ability to save message parts externally in the correct content-type file type. Perhaps a switchable option to "Attachments: Show all parts / Show only real attachments" would provide the flexibility for power and standard users alike. -- Cheers -- Marck D Pearlstone -- List moderator and fellow end user TB! v8.5.8.2 (ALPHA) on Windows 10.0.17134 pgpmsCNwrLVhM.pgp Description: PGP signature Current beta is 8.5.8.2 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
