Re: [Evolution] Don't show attachments inline

[Franco Broi <franco bordernet com au>]

On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 09:00 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> 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.

Great, that fixes it, Evolution doesn't try to open the attachment
without that module.

> > 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


No it doesn't but no matter, the fix above works for me.

Thank you very much.

> 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.

I only recently switched to Linux Mint, some of the apps are a little
old but I really like the Cinnamon desktop. Was running it on Fedora
but it kept locking up.

Thanks again for the quick response.

>       Bye,
>       Milan
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