Re: Invisible attached files?

Marc Baaden <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:44:33 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exmh.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear Wolfgang,

Thank you for your feedback, but this is actually the other way round 
compared to my initial question, if I understand your comment right:

- what you say, is someone sends an email with attachment from Apple 
Mail and when you try to open it in exmh it does not show the 
attachment, did I get that right?

- my problem is inverse: I send an email with exmh, and someone with 
Apple Mail opens it and there is no sign of any attachment,

Maybe those two are related.

In any case, any help/suggestion by anyone is appreciated.

Marc


>>> Wolfgang Denk said:
 >> Dear Ken Hornstein,
 >> 
 >> In message <[email protected]> you wrote:
 >> > >I am a long-time exmh/nmh user and for some time now (a year or so),
 >> > >some of the people I send mail with attachments to complain they don't 
 >> > >see any attached file. In these cases I verified and the attachment has 
 >> > >indeed been sent.
 >> >
 >> > How do you create attachments?  Are you just using sedit? (yikes!)
 >> 
 >> No, this is indeed a "feature" of Apple Mail (seen for example with
 >> version 2.3445.102.3, but also many times before).
 >> 
 >> I have set preferences for text (over html).  In such cases this is
 >> what I will see:
 >> 
 >> ------
 >>  (multipart/signed)
 >> 1.  (multipart/alternative)
 >> There are alternative views of the following: (Invoke menu with right butto
     n.)
 >> ------
 >>  (text/plain)
 >> Message text.
 >> ------
 >> 
 >> There are no hints about attachments.
 >> 
 >> Only if I follow the hint "Invoke menu with right button." I will
 >> get a menu:
 >> 
 >> 	Decode part as MIME
 >> 	Save a multipart/alternative...
 >> 	Print a multipart/alternative as text...
 >> 	Show alternative 1: text/plain
 >> 	Show alternative 2: multipart/mixed
 >> 
 >> Selecting alternative 2 will then show all parts, in the example
 >> here:
 >> 
 >> ------
 >>  (multipart/signed)
 >> 1.  (multipart/alternative)
 >> There are alternative views of the following: (Invoke menu with right butto
     n.)
 >> ------
 >>  (multipart/mixed)
 >> 1.2.1.  (text/html)
 >> View HTML contents with netscape
 >> . . . (Invoke menu with right button.)
 >> ------
 >> 1.2.2. <filename>.pdf (application/pdf)
 >> 
 >>  Open a application/pdf...    Save...
 >> 
 >> 1.2.3.  (text/html)
 >> View HTML contents with netscape
 >> . . . (Invoke menu with right button.)
 >> ------
 >> 1.2.4. <other filename>.pdf (application/pdf)
 >> 
 >>  Open a application/pdf...    Save...
 >> ------
 >> 1.2.5.  (text/html)
 >> View HTML contents with netscape
 >> . . . (Invoke menu with right button.)
 >> ------
 >> 2. smime.p7s (application/pkcs7-signature)
 >> This is a application/pkcs7-signature
 >>  name = smime.p7s
 >>  disposition = attachment
 >>  filename = smime.p7s
 >> ------
 >> 
 >> Now I have access to all thecomponents of the mail.
 >> 
 >> 
 >> When you expect an attachment, then this is not a big deal; however,
 >> the problem is that it's easy to miss important information if you
 >> don't expect it, as it comes indeed invisible in the default
 >> display.
 >> 
 >> Best regards,
 >> 
 >> Wolfgang Denk
 >> 
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