On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:36:58AM -0700, Tom Plunket wrote:
> Isn't it funny that Agent solved this years ago in what I would call
> the near-perfect solution?
Because it isn't nearly perfect nor a solution?
> top of the message. However, if you're only interested in To:, From:,
> CC:, and Subject:, it only shows those, but it shows those fully (and
> wrapped at screen width.
Great, so we could have a slew of information which, most times, we don't
want or need before we get to the actual body of the message. Well, if
nothing else, it identifies the poorly formed spam faster.
> Agent also solved the attachment issue that we seem to have. Why not
> just display the attachments inline with icons representing where they
> are?
Because they aren't the body. Having the PGP information in the body is
bad enough, it really shouldn't be there. Also in the MIME context there
really isn't any positional information from most clients. Mutt can do it.
In fact, how you describe is how mutt does things, but it is a CLI application
and some consessions need to be made. Still, uglier than all hell and
something that a GUI application has no excuse to resort to.
> What's the problem with that implementation? I suppose some would
> argue that there's no quick way to know if a message has an attachment
> (since it could be scrolled off the screen), but to that I submit that
> there's an icon in the message list anyway indicating this fact.
The fact that there is no way to get to the attachment right away. The
information just isn't there.
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