Re: Mail and Attachments
Re: Mail and Attachments
- Subject: Re: Mail and Attachments
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:22:25 -0500
- Thread-topic: Mail and Attachments
On 8/26/05 16:24, "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> Maybe it's not so strange, Paul ... the UI does seem to get you to
>>> add attachments to a message, but then they always appear inline at
>>> the insertion point. So in that sense they attach to the text in
>>> the UI.
>>
>> Only if you're using rich text. If your messages are all plain
>> text, this
>> doesn't happen the same way, which is why the attachment should be an
>> element of the message.
>
> Huh. Works fine for me -- plain text, attachment in the middle.
> (Mail winds up sending it as multipart/mixed.) While I think that
> adding "attachment" as a direct element of "message" would make a lot
> of sense -- and I note that the existing "attachment" class is less
> than useful, since it doesn't tell you where the file is -- I'd posit
> that having them as an element of "text" is *not* completely
> nonsensical.
Just checked again, yep, Mail does it that way. I'll posit that for 'plain
text" this is a broken behavior, unless you're going to display the
attachment unedited in the text of the message. It makes parsing the raw
text of the message FAR more tedious than it should be, since I can't just
grab the message body, I now have to check to make sure I'm not grabbing an
attachment.
I appreciate the intention, but for plain text messages, I can't see how it
doesn't cause more problems than it solves to allow attachments to be
embedded in the message in that manner. Once I get home, I'll have to file a
feature request that this be changed for leopard.
--
"It's like a koala crapped a rainbow in my brain!"
Captain Murphy, Sealab 2021
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