Re: [Evolution] Don't show attachments inline

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 10:24 +0800, Franco Broi wrote:
> I routinely send and receive emails with script archive attachments.
> When I try to view these messages, Evolution shows the attachment in-
> line, this makes it hang for many seconds even when I am looking at
> my own sent folder on my computer.

        Hi,
how large the attachments are, please? It can be that the text-
highlight module causes the slowness, it used to be the reason in the
past. You can move it away from
   /usr/lib64/evolution/modules/module-text-highlight.so
or wherever your distribution has it installed. Then you'll lose the
syntax highlighting, but it'll be quicker. Newer version has this
addressed, of course.

> Looking through all the mail settings, there doesn't appear to be any
> option to never open attachments even if they are plain text, is this
> correct?

It depends. Does the corresponding part contain:
   Content-Disposition: inline
header? If so, then it is suggested to show it inline. This can be
disabled in GSettings:
   $ gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.mail display-content-disposition-inline false
but I've no idea whether your ancient version has that option or not,
I'm sorry. If it's without that header, well, there can be a way
to write a module for it, but I'm not sure whether it could be used in
your version.

        Bye,
        Milan