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[#9825] Some message attachments are not being shown
Summary Some message attachments are not being shown
Queue IMP
Queue Version Git master
Type Bug
State Duplicate
Priority 1. Low
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Requester goncalo.queiros (at) portugalmail (dot) net
Created 04/06/2011 (5204 days ago)
Due
Updated 04/22/2011 (5188 days ago)
Assigned 04/06/2011 (5204 days ago)
Resolved 04/22/2011 (5188 days ago)
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04/22/2011 09:10:11 PM Michael Slusarz Comment #5
State ⇒ Duplicate
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Duplicate of Ticket #9827.
04/06/2011 09:04:38 PM goncalo (dot) queiros (at) portugalmail (dot) net Comment #4 Reply to this comment
Hum, indeed, the messages are badly formatted.
Actually Thunderbird displays the bmp inline, the pps is displayed as attach..
But hey, if the message is not in the correct format, the client 
behavior is also "unexpected".

04/06/2011 05:20:32 PM Michael Slusarz Comment #3
State ⇒ Feedback
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
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multipart/related
   multipart/alternative
     text/plain
     text/html
   image/bmp
For the record, it appears that what was intended was this:

multipart/alternative
   text/plain
   text/html
   image/bmp

In other words, show the image if possible but if not then show 
placeholder text that says that an image is attached.  Still not 
tremendously useful.

Thinking about this a bit more... I would not be opposed to outputting 
a status message saying there are message parts contained within a 
multipart/related part that can not be accessed via the base related 
part.  Although I'm not sure how easy this would be.
04/06/2011 04:59:34 PM Michael Slusarz Comment #2
State ⇒ Not A Bug
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Thunderbird is buggy then.  There is no attachment in either message.

This is what the MIME structure looks like for the BMP message:

multipart/related
   multipart/alternative
     text/plain
     text/html
   image/bmp

The image/bmp MUST somehow be referred to in either text/plain or 
text/html (the "root" part of the multipart/alternative).  The whole 
point of multipart/related is that the ENTIRE part can be represented 
in a single data object.  multipart/related does not allow attachments 
inside of it - that simply doesn't make any sense.

If Thunderbird is showing this part, its attachment recognition 
algorithm is badly broken (which is true, as previously mentioned when 
discussing forwarding).
04/06/2011 03:24:20 PM goncalo (dot) queiros (at) portugalmail (dot) net Comment #1
Priority ⇒ 2. Medium
Type ⇒ Bug
Summary ⇒ Some message attachments are not being shown
Queue ⇒ IMP
Milestone ⇒
Patch ⇒ No
New Attachment: messages.zip Download
State ⇒ Unconfirmed
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Attached two messages, one with a pps and the other with a bmp, that 
display correctly on Thunderbird, but Horde doesn't.

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