[Tickets #9827] Re: attachments are not shown for this message

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DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE. THIS EMAIL ADDRESS IS NOT MONITORED.

Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/9827
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  Ticket             | 9827
  Updated By         | vilius at lnk.lt
  Summary            | attachments are not shown for this message
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | Git master
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Unconfirmed
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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vilius at lnk.lt (2011-04-07 17:09) wrote:

>> Another sample message. Looks like problematic messages are sent from
>> Apple OSes.
>
> Do you have HTML viewing off?  If so, there aren't any attachments  
> in this message.

Yes. I'm using the default.

> This is a multipart/alternative message that looks like the following:
>
> multipart/alternative
>   text/plain
>   multipart/mixed
>     text/html
>     application/msword
>     text/html
>     application/msword
>     text/html
>
> Unless at least 1 of the parts in a multipart/alternative part is  
> viewable, we can't display that part.  Thus, if text/html is off, we  
> can only display text/plain.  There are no attachments in this  
> message.  Absent bringing back the confusing alternative parts  
> status box, not sure what we can do here.
>
> Related to Ticket #9365 and #7981.  As previously mentioned, and of  
> which I am constantly reminded, Apple Mail continues to make  
> TERRIBLE assumptions about how multipart/alternative works.

Understood. However it is really difficult to explain the users, why  
Gmail, Outlook and even oldy The Bat! display it right. But with IMP  
they don't.