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Article #526Re: Apple Mail and MIME attachment problems
From: Tim X
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:36
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:36
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Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl> writes: >>>>>> newsspam5REMOVETHIS@robf.de (R) wrote: > >>R> Something which is a bit odd about your example: the attachment >>R> is on the same level as the HTML part, which means you will not >>R> see it if VM decides to present the PLAIN TEXT part. But still >>R> you should see it if you press "D" once, i.e. you should get >>R> buttons for each mime part. > > Yes, that is how Apple mail sends attachments. It uses the following > structure: > > multipart/alternative > text/plain > multipart/mixed > text/html > attachments > > whereas I think the sensible way would be: > > multipart/mixed > multipart/alternative > text/plain > text/html > attachments > > -- I agree that seems to be more sensible. Have you had the same issue with apple mail attachments and difficulty accessing them within VM? Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
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