Re: [Evolution] Some attachments don't show up in evolution.

["John Weber" <jweber math cudenver edu>]

My original post to this thread referenced the example on the Ximian
users list. I didn't want to forward a virus to this list.

I think the answer I'm getting is that there are changes being made to
evolution that may fix this in a future version (?)

Thanks, 
John

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 23:49, Not Zed wrote:
> It could be related though.  a multipart/related base part that doesn't
> reference the parts that follow.  Without seeing the mail I cant' really
> say though.  The 'attachment' icon is determined pretty simply too,
> based on the type of parts in a multipart, it ins't always accurate.
>
> That multipart/related fix didn't make it into stable afaik either.
>
> On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 00:15, Dan Winship wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 10:23, John Weber wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I curious as to why some attachments (seems to be the virus ones on the
> > > Ximian users list) don't show up in evolution (1.0.3)
> >
> > Several of the recent Outlook viruses have mangled MIME syntax to
> > trigger various Outlook bugs. Evolution is doing its best to display the
> > message according to the inconsistent description it's given.
> >
> > There was a problem that messages composed in "rich text" mode in
> > Outlook and then auto-converted to HTML by Exchange would show up
> > without the attachments in Evolution (because Evolution was displaying
> > what the message *said* to display instead of what it *meant* to be
> > displayed). That's definitely fixed in Evolution 1.2 (and hacked around
> > in Connector 1.0), but I don't remember if the fix made it into
> > Evolution 1.0. But this is probably not what you're seeing if you're
> > talking about virus mails.
> >
> > -- Dan
> >
> >
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John S. Weber
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