Re: [Evolution] [Fwd: Pilot: Fatal alert]

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

If you take a look at the message source, you'll find that the message
is a multipart/alternativewhich means that there are several
"alternative" views of the same[1] message body which are listed in
reverse preference order (last part is the most preferred, first part is
the least preferred).

What a mail client is supposed to do is show the *last* part which it is
capable of displaying, which is exactly what Evolution is doing.

I don't know what can be done as obviously it would not be good to show
the user all versions of the body (imagine reading multiple copies of
the same message all in a row - we'd probably get thousands of bug
reports about a bug in evolution that showed multiple copies of the same
message).

[1] obviously, the content *does* differ. usually you'll have 1 version
in text/html format and one in text/plain (and possibly one in
text/richtext or text/enriched or something).

Jeff

On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 20:43, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> The attached message shows up blank in my copy of Evolution 1.2.1.  I
> get a lot of messages from that particular list which show up blank in
> evolution, but are readable in kmail.  Any ideas?
-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com