Tickets :: Comment on [#9827] attachments are not shown for this message

* Your Email Address
* Spam protection	Enter the letters below: . .__ . ..___.. . \| [__)\| \| \| \ / \|___\| \|/\\| \| \/
Comment	>>> Understood. However it is really difficult to explain the users, why >>> Gmail, Outlook and even oldy The Bat! display it right. But with IMP >>> they don't. >> >> But I don't understand how they could display these as attachments? >> If they do they are going entirely against the wishes of the original >> sender. >> >> What I really think is happening here (and not to be braggy), but IMP >> is just much more intelligent about determining what to display as >> attachments. I can almost guarantee you that these other MUA's are >> simply obtaining a list of MIME part types of the message, looping >> through the list, and marking as attachments anything that "looks" >> like an attachment. But this approach completely ignores the >> container those parts are located in, which is simply broken behavior >> (or at the least, lazy coding). >> >> If I send a message to you that says that you shouldn't see any >> attachments if you can only view the text/plain part, then that's the >> way I want the message to be viewed by you. Or else, what's the >> point of any of these MIME types? > > I really understand what you say and I support every point made. I > always teach people and encaurage to NOT use Apple products for the > same reason. They are indeed very buggy under the hood. But also I > always say that standards and technology should serve people, not the > other way around. So just hoped that it is possible to make an > exception for Apple messages and to display them differently.
Attachment
Watch this ticket

Saved Queries