[imp] Message display in Imp 4.0.1 (vs 3.x)

[Sergey Dushenkov]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael M Slusarz" <slusarz at bigworm.curecanti.org>
To: <imp at lists.horde.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [imp] Message display in Imp 4.0.1 (vs 3.x)


> Quoting Sergey Dushenkov <dusha at mcl.ru>:
>
>> Hmm....
>> Ppl, any comments on the below?
>> I'm also curious regarding this "cosmetic" issue...
>>
>> Sergey
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcelo N. Halpern" 
>> <mhalpern at ramapo.edu>
>> To: <imp at lists.horde.org>
>> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:15 PM
>> Subject: [imp] Message display in Imp 4.0.1 (vs 3.x)
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've recently upgraded to Imp 4.0.1 from v3.x. The new set up is great!
>>>
>>> One of the things I have noticed is that messages with attachments get 
>>> displayed a bit differently:
>>> on version 3.x, I had a link to each attachment in the message
>>> on version 4, I have a link to each attachment *and* the text/plain 
>>> section of the message. These two images might clarify what I mean.
>>> (http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~mhalpern/imp3.x.jpg and 
>>> http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~mhalpern/imp4.0.jpg)
>>>
>>> That only happens when there are attachments, If the message body is the 
>>> only message part, it gets displayed similarly as in v3.x. How do I get 
>>> rid of the "text/plain" attachment being shown?
>
> Why is this a "cosmetic" issue?  This is a actually a bug fix.  Say a user 
> wanted to download only the contents of the inline text/plain data.  In 
> IMP 3.0 this was not possible - there is no link to download part 1 of the 
> MIME message; in IMP 4.0, it is possible.

Ok, then it'll be good to have an additional "option" in future to turn this 
bug-fix off. :)

S.