[pmmail-list] HTML and other parts, and a problem report

[L.Willms]

I just got a message from Gigabyte (the mainboard vendor) which is not 
correctly displayed by PMMail (version see X-mailer header of this mail). 
Description of the problem follows further down. 

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:16:30 +0200 (MES), L.Willms wrote:

>    PMMail still has the original view of email as being a text with 
> attachments, which is reflected in the "Attachments |  attachment type" menu 
> option in the message compose view, where UUENCODE, BINHEX, and MIME are 
> listed as forms of an ATTACHMENT. 
> 
>    But the MIME view of the message body is rather that of a sequence of 
> message parts, which might also be alternate (multipart/alternate) or 
related 
> (multipart/related). 

   This email was a nested structure (yes, MIME is recursive). 

   The message header described it as "multipart/related". The first part was 
again multipart, this time "multipart/alternate" -- a text/plain part, and a 
text/html part. 

    The HTML part references some images which are on the multipart/related 
level, and are references in the <IMG SRC="..."> by their Content-ID. 

    PMMail/2 displays only the text/plain part, not the text/html alternative; 
selecting "View message in web browser" does not display the images, since the 
browser does not know anything about the relationships via the Content-ID to 
the other parts in the multipart/related structure. 

    PMMail/2000 displays the HTML formatting, but ignores the <IMG 
SRC="cid:479221312@28082002-252a" ..> which reference other related parts in 
the message via their Content-ID (cid). 

    I can send that message if BSW wants it to see for testing purposes. 


Yours, 
Lüko Willms
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Frankfurt/Main  

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