[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         | 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 (2011-04-11 06:21) wrote:

> Here's another way of putting it: I think the vast majority of  
> multipart/alternative usage that isn't text/plain vs. text/html is  
> broken. So yes, with multipart/alternative messages, I think we  
> should show the richer of html or text, depending on whether both  
> are available in the message and how IMP is configured, and then  
> make everything else available as an attachment.

This was not right in IMP4 also. In this case most messages has been  
marked as with attachments, and when user opened those attachments,  
they saw alternative or empty parts.

I'm more in favor of making an exception for *major* buggy clients  
only. Like Apple's.

> Otherwise, IMP users are going to continue to get messages from  
> broken MUAs and consider IMP to be buggy because they can't get to  
> the attachment. It won't matter if we're right.

True.