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

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/9827
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  Ticket             | 9827
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  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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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2011-04-07 17:21) wrote:

> 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.

But I don't understand how they could display these as attachments?   
If they do they are going entirely against the wishes of the original  
sender.

What I really think is happening here (and not to be braggy), but IMP  
is just much more intelligent about determining what to display as  
attachments.  I can almost guarantee you that these other MUA's are  
simply obtaining a list of MIME part types of the message, looping  
through the list, and marking as attachments anything that "looks"  
like an attachment.  But this approach completely ignores the  
container those parts are located in, which is simply broken behavior  
(or at the least, lazy coding).

If I send a message to you that says that you shouldn't see any  
attachments if you can only view the text/plain part, then that's the  
way I want the message to be viewed by you.  Or else, what's the point  
of any of these MIME types?