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Comment	> Responding to your first paragraph: then what is an attachment? What > are the rules for an attachment? Why would, say, an image be > considered an attachment if it appears in a multipart/alternative > part, and yet a text part in a multipart/alternative is not? In > other words, what exactly is an "attachment" to an average user? > Remember, whatever your definition is it has to be coded somehow. > You can't do a "I can't define it but I'll know it when I see it" > (ala Justice Stewart in Jacobellis v. Ohio). > > > > Responding to the second pargraph - there are serious technical > limitations to converting a MIME message->file download. Your first > example is handled correctly - the zip file contains the one part of > the multipart/altenative file that isn't seen. The second example is > handled correctly - the image (which is completely separate from the > HTML message) is the attachment and appears in the zip file. The > third example is an example of a certain MIME type (i.e. > multipart/related) that simply can not be downloaded in a single file > since it is the joinder of two (or more) elements. You can't see a > download on the message page because there is no image to download > - the multipart/related type instead requires all of its components > to be viewed together. No single component is displayed separately. > However, when it comes down to downloading all attachments, we made a > choice that it would be better to include these images (since the > images may be the important part of the message and is what the user > wants to download) in the zip file since they fit our definition of > an attachment.
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