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

[Marcelo N. Halpern]

Michael,

The issue may not be exactly a bug... Imp 4.x behaves inconsistently though:

In 3.x, no attachments: no text/plain attachment link
In 3.x  w/ attachments: no text/plain attachment link
In 4.x, no attachments: no text/plain attachment link
In 4.x  w/ attachments:yes text/plain attachment link

In all the cases above, there *is* a text/plain part: the message itself.

I know it's a good thing to be able to download the message text... but 
unless there is something else attached to the message, you can't really 
do it.

Nico


Michael M Slusarz wrote:
> 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.
> 
> michael
> 
> _______________________________________
> Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]

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