Quoting Jens-Uwe Mozdzen <jmozd...@nde.ag>:
Hi *,
from time to time I receive emails where the preview pane shows
"there are no message parts that can be displayed directly" (or
similar, my locale in non-english) and the details pane above shows
no message parts.
The emails do have an HTML part in addition to the plain text part,
which is shown when I select "more functions"->"all parts": The
details pane then displays a tree with the root member "Alternative"
with two sub-elements (plain text icon and HTML icon).
The message source shows both parts, the plain text part is empty.
As I have selected to display plain text rather than HTML, showing
the "empty" message part is ok - but shouldn't there be a button to
display the alternative part (I see that with other mixed messages)?
My crystal ball shows a blurry image of code that detects the empty
plain text body and then stops processing with the "there are no
parts that can be displayed directly" message, instead of continuing
to where the alternative part is detected and producing the button
to trigger its display.
The same problem surfaces when I double-click the message to display
it in a separate window.
Should I open a bug for this? Or is this behavior wanted by design?
This is the correct behavior.
You have indicated that you can't display HTML parts (by your config),
so that part is not available.
And alternative parts by definition should only ever show a single
part - you should not be given a choice between which representation
to view. That's the whole point of multipart/alternative.
Put another way: you should never know you are looking at an alternative part.
michael
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Michael Slusarz [slus...@horde.org]
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