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Re: multipart/alternative question



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On Thursday, July 16 at 08:56 PM, quoth lee:
>On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:23:40PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
>
>> Of course, like I said, I'm more worried about incorrectly saying
>> there are 0 attachments when there is in fact (at least) 1 than I am
>> with incorrectly saying there are 3 attachments when there are in fact
>> (depending on how you count) 4 or even just 1.
>
>Maybe it's a stupid idea: What if mutt only counts how many containers
>are in a message?

Well, I get a lot of messages from people who use email clients with 
"default" message composition in HTML (that includes Outlook, 
Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and a whole host of others). When they send a 
basic message to say "Hi!", their client sends a message structured 
like this:

     I   1 <no description>        [multipart/alternative]
     I   2 |-><no description>     [text/plain]
     I   3 `-><no description>     [text/html]

In this case, the text/plain part says "Hi!", and the text/html part 
says "<body>Hi!</body>". It's completely idiotic.

But anyway, I don't consider this message to have ANY "attachments". 
The person didn't send me any extra files to look at. They sent me the 
same message twice, one with extra formatting and one without. I don't 
think most people would consider that to be a message with 
"attachments", so I don't think mutt should say that there is an 
attachment.

~Kyle
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