Ray_Net wrote:
> Richmond wrote on 05-05-18 01:11:
>> EE wrote:
>>> Richmond wrote:
>>>> Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>>>>> Richmond wrote:
>>>>>> Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>>>>>>> Richmond wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have SM set to view the message body as plain text. But it
>>>>>>>> does not
>>>>>>>> show attachments. At least it did not show some in a forwarded
>>>>>>>> message
>>>>>>>> from an apple mail client. Is this what we want? It could at least
>>>>>>>> say
>>>>>>>> that there are attachments without trying any further
>>>>>>>> interpretation.
>>>>>>> Not sure what you mean "show attachments," but there are a couple of
>>>>>>> ways for you to detect that a message contains an attachment.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> None of those options work if you have View Message Body As Plain
>>>>>> Text.
>>>>>> It is as if there are no attachments, no paperclips, no save as
>>>>>> options,
>>>>>> nothing. At the very least I would thing plain text would include
>>>>>> vision
>>>>>> of the attachment headers, although that would be a rather messy
>>>>>> way of
>>>>>> doing it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tested your claim here with messages originally written in HTML and
>>>>> with messages originally written in plain text, and in all cases the
>>>>> options I described worked as expected. I tested with View Message
>>>>> Body
>>>>> As Plain Text and with View Message Body As Original HTML, and it made
>>>>> no difference.
>>>>>
>>>>> SM 2.49.2, Win7 Pro SP1, SeaMonkey Default Theme.
>>>>>
>>>> It seems that some attachments do work, and some don't. In this
>>>> instance
>>>> it is a forwarded message (i.e. forwarded to me from someone with an
>>>> apple client who received a message with attachments).
>>>>
>>>> The message and its attachments display OK in Gmail webmail, and
>>>> also on
>>>> my Iphone mail client.
>>>>
>>>  From what I understood from using Thunderbird, attachments are removed
>>> from messages before forwarding them.
>>>
>> I have found another example where I sent an email to myself from my
>> iPhone. The attachment is not recognized until I change the view from
>> plain text to original HTML. I can't see any reason for this, especially
>> as it is not consistent. If there is a reason for it, then it would
>> apply to all attachments, not just those from Apple clients. So I
>> conclude that SM is not handling attachments from Apple properly.
>> (Whether because of Apple, or because of SM).
> May be because the picture is not an attachment, but is a part of the
> HTML body only.

It is not a picture. In fact there were three attachments, all of which
were docx. The headers show "Content-Disposition: attachment;"

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