[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 17:52) 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?

I really understand what you say and I support every point made. I  
always teach people and encaurage to NOT use Apple products for the  
same reason. They are indeed very buggy under the hood. But also I  
always say that standards and technology should serve people, not the  
other way around. So just hoped that it is possible to make an  
exception for Apple messages and to display them differently.