From: Marc G. K. <ma...@it...> - 2002-03-18 21:56:03
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> Hello Marc, > > Searching for the first displayable entity (text/plain) is not what I > call mis-handling. Perhaps mis-handling is the incorrect choice of > words. The more appropriate word then would be "incomplete." :-) > > SM shouldn't stop searching once it has found the first displayable > entity (text/plain). It should find ALL the displayable entities, and > display THOSE in order (perhaps include some sort of separator if you > want to distinguish parts) that they appear in the message. OK, good suggestion, I will take a look at in about a week our 2 (bussy) > > The un-displayable attachments can then be displayed at the end. > > Although I would perhaps like to see as an option (if/when this gets > done), that INCLUDED displayable attachments (images, for example) be > displayed in-line, even if the email is displaying (text/plain) parts. > > I thought that you had nailed the MIME forwarding encapsulation problem > earlier. Forwarding messages as attachment is correctly done. I was more thinking of future additions like html-composing mail. If you then forward an html mail then SM needs support for reconstructing the multilevel boundary structure. Now it's a flat list. > > Thanks, > -j > > On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 15:23, Marc Groot Koerkamp wrote: >> SM search for the first displayable entity (text/plain) and if your >> SM- version supports HTML-messages then sm will look for the first >> displayable text/html entity. I don't know if this is what you call >> mis-handling. >> >> However it should be possible to display the other text/plain messages >> like how it's done with the image/type mime-parts. >> >> I don't know if this is wanted behaviour, maybe some other developpers >> have an opinion about that. >> >> If it's a go it should be possible for me to implement it. Let's see >> the other reactions. >> >> By the way there are more problems with the mime handling. For >> instance forwarding of multipart messages with an entity depth of more >> then 1. That's next what I want to fix. > > -- > Joseph F. Dries III > Director Information Technology Services > > Advanced Logic Systems, Inc. > 411B Southgate Court > Mickleton, NJ 08056 > v: 856-423-7701 > f: 856-423-7737 > > http://www.advancedlogicsys.com/ |