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

[Larry Ewing <lewing ximian com>]

In the example you gave the only thing that is supposed to be showing up
is a 0x0 inline frame (an <iframe>).  Trust me it is showing up.  The
part that claims it is wave file is referenced by the iframe so
evolution doesn't show a save widget for that part, this is same way it
treats inline images.  This is a very reasonable way to interpret this
intentionally broken message.

One way I can think of that might improve the situation is to check the
mime type of the part and compare it to the mime type that gtkhtml
requests on that stream, see the difference and add the the save part
widget since it doesn't match.  On the other hand I'm not sure if it is
really worth the effort.

--Larry

On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 09:27, John Weber wrote:
> 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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