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Comment	>>>> A valid workaround already exists to see these parts in standard view >>>> - by clicking on view all message parts. If this feature was added >>>> to the dynamic view also, would this be sufficient? >>> >>> As told earlier, interpreting particular MUA messages differently >>> would be better, but at least for my users "View All Message Parts" >>> method is enough too. >> >> To me, "view all message parts" is a good workaround for power users >> or really broken messages. But I'm guessing that most end users won't >> find it (or know when to use it) without specific help, so I'd prefer >> another solution. I'm okay if we want to treat messages from a >> specific MUA differently, though it doesn't feel quite right to me. >> >> I'm still wondering how many real-world use cases there are for >> multipart/alternative parts that aren't text/plain or text/html? The >> one that's been mentioned is calendar invites and that seems like one >> we should special-case even if the invite isn't an alternative part >> (i.e., text message with calendar attachment - we should show the >> calendar response UI - along with any text - anyway). Beyond that I >> don't know of any - just cases where a buggy MUA sends an excel >> spreadsheet as one of the multipart/alternative parts, despite clear >> user intent for the spreadsheet to be an attachment. > > Here's just one example I can come up with of why we can't treat > anything inside of a non-viewable alternative part as an attachment. > > multipart/alternative > text/plain > multipart/related > text/html > image/png (content-disposition: attachment; image is used for > HTML formatting) > image/png (same) > image/png (same) > image/png (same) > image/png (same) > > This is a not uncommon message structure. If text/html is disabled, > the image/png's should definitely NOT be shown as attachments. (This > examples show that content-disposition is worthless for determining > what parts are attachments).
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