Hi all,
I came across a strange issue which is most likely related to outlook.
But since alpine is involved, I want to make sure that the problem is
not caused by alpine.
Using alpine, I forwarded mails containing several parts. I wrote some
text in the mail as well.
The recipients using outlook then do not see my text, but solely the
forwarded mail as if it would have been send to them directly.
The problem occurs only when for some reason the text of the forwarded
mail is attached instead of being cited. The mails that showed this
problem, all consisted of several parts including attachments (e.g.
PDFs). I used such a mail as a template to create a minimal example (by
editing the raw mail text) and then sent it to myself. In alpine, this
example mail looks as follows:
===Start=================================
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:38:34 +0100 (CET)
From: Olaf Skibbe <[email protected]>
To: Olaf Skibbe <[email protected]>
Subject: Mail parts invisible in Outlook
Parts/Attachments:
1 Shown 1 lines Text
2.1.1 Shown ~3 lines Text (charset: ISO-8859-1)
2.1.2 OK ~7 lines Text (charset: ISO-8859-1)
----------------------------------------
New added text in forwarded mail.
[ Part 2.1.1: "Attached Text" ]
Plain text in forwarded mail
===End===================================
Pressing "a", I get to see the html part of the attached text:
===Start=================================
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:38:34 +0100 (CET)
From: Olaf Skibbe <[email protected]>
To: Olaf Skibbe <[email protected]>
Subject: Mail parts invisible in Outlook
Parts/Attachments:
1 Shown 1 lines Text
2.1.1 OK ~3 lines Text (charset: ISO-8859-1)
2.1.2 Shown ~7 lines Text (charset: ISO-8859-1)
----------------------------------------
New added text in forwarded mail.
[ Part 2.1.2: "Attached Text" ]
HTML text in forwarded mail
===End===================================
This is so far as expected.
I then copied this mail to an exchange mailbox. Looking at the mail with
the outlook web interface, the mail body only shows:
===Start=================================
HTML text in forwarded mail
===End===================================
The actual mail text by me is not visible. I can access the mail (i.e.
the very same mail in the same mailbox) via thunderbird and get:
===Start=================================
New added text in forwarded mail.
(horizontal line)
HTML text in forwarded mail
===End===================================
My question now is, if there is a hint that this could be caused by a
misbehavior of alpine. Specifically: is the structure of the e-mail as
shown standard compliant (whatever this means)? I was not able to
generate this problem by forwarding mails with TB.
I can provide more details if required or an example mail to the list
showing the issue, but I do not know if attachments are allowed on the
mailing list.
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Olaf
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