Re: multipart/alternative question
On Wed 15, Jul'09 at 11:59 PM -0600, lee wrote:
Hm, I was reading the manual, and there's an object "attachment" that
can be used with "color". But I don't understand what that is for:
That colors the attachment in message display, like this:
[-- Attachment #1 --]
[-- Type: multipart/alternative, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 3.7K --]
would show up as colored.
Hm, I would expect that attachments are attachments and count as
such ...
I 1 <no description> [multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 2.0K]
I 2 ><no description> [text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, 0.7K]
I 3 ><no description> [text/html, quoted, iso-8859-1, 1.0K]
I 4 <no description> [text/plain, 7bit, us-ascii, 0.2K]
For that one, %X says the mail has 1 (one) attachment. But apparently
it has 4 attachments, so what's %X for?
Well, on my setup it counts attachments that aren't inlined, i.e. A.
However I see in the manual there is an attachments command which lets you
configure what is counted. I need to read up on it but it might answer some
of my questions.
Perhaps you can help them to fix their MUAs? If you can find out if
what they are doing is compliant with RFCs or not, you could act
accordingly. Unfortunately that's a difficult task, but if they are
compliant, you need to change something on your side.
Once I figure out a bit more I'll probably send a bug report to Apple.
It'll probably be easier to get them to change it then to get all the users
of Apple Mail to change.
It's hard to examine the problem without having an example email
... What happens when you notice that you got such a mail and have
mutt display what attachments there are? Can you view the attachments
from there?
Yes I can do that. It's more of an issue of not realizing there is an
alternative view, and since the attachment is buried in that alternative, I
don't realize it's there. If I hit 'v' and look, it all shows up.
Playing around last night, I see if I set add 'multipart/related
multipart/mixed' to the front of my alternative order, it does pick up these
messages from Apple Mail and display them.