[horde] Horde 4 and attachments in mail view

[Xavier Montagutelli]

On Monday 27 February 2012 23:07:02 Andreas Mauser wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> ----- Nachricht von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> ---------
>    Datum: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:01:27 -0700
>      Von: Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
> Betreff: Re: [horde] Horde 4 and attachments in mail view
>       An: horde at lists.horde.org
> 
> > Quoting Andreas Mauser <andreas at mauser.info>:
> >> with Horde 3 an email with an attachment was not shown with an
> >> attachment sign in the mail list.
> >> 
> >> On my new webserver I have this same behaviour. Is there a solution
> >> that an icon comes up? I have seen in the settings that there
> >> should be an icon.

Did you try the following IMP preference ?

$_prefs['atc_flag']['value'] = 1;

Be aware that this preference is time consuming ...


> > 
> > Then those messages do NOT contain an attachment.  You have to
> > understand that what *you* might think is an attachment is not
> > necessarily an attachment.  E.g. a multipart/related message, with
> > images displayed in the message -- those images are NOT attachments.
> > 
> > This is one of the reasons why implementing message forwarding to
> > display the list of attachments to select/de-select is an absolutely
> > terrible idea.  Attachments, as defined at the MIME level, really
> > have NO correlation with what a user might reasonably think is an
> > attachment.  Most MIME attachments are not discrete files that can
> > be easily downloaded, at least with current browsers/Operating
> > Systems.
> > 
> > michael
> 
> Thank you for explaining that well and I fully agree on that.
> 
> I just sent an email with an attachment to myself, it arrives, I get a
> notification, then I click on my Inbox and the only icons on the left
> I can see is 'Personal' and Unread'.
> 
> Only when I open the email I can see that it contains an attachment,
> in my case a simple .odt file.
> 
> Andreas

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