Comment 8 for bug 881411

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:29 AM, John Hein <email address hidden> wrote:
> I seem to recall discussion in the past about making vm-decode-mime-
> message do a more complete job at displaying all the various mime parts
> as buttons.  Maybe another state in addition to the current 3 states:
> decoded, buttons, raw.  Perhaps change 'buttons' to two states: one that
> display buttons normally based on configured visibility and another that
> displays all buttons regardless of visibility rules (maybe "visible" and
> "invisible" mime parts?).
>
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> Title:
>  Mime attachment not processed correctly.
>
> Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  Certain emails with [cid...] in the text part, which report the
>  existence of  inline images, do not get decoded with the current
>  stable version of vm (8.20a on emacs 23.3).  I can forward an example
>  of this type of email, which seems to have appeared recently (new
>  Microsoft trick?).  By the way, mutt seems to be able to handle
>  messages of this type.
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IIRC that was something Robert did when I was receiving messages from
a client using Apple Mail where the attachments were embedded inside
poorly structured MIME. The workaround Robert provided was to enable
all MIME objects to be displayed so that you could select individual
'bits'. As you point out, this ws a workaround. I'm not sure what
happened to that functionality possibly the issue with Apple Mail
attachments was fixed and so the functionality was removed?

Tim

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Tim Cross