Re: Patch: better heuristics for detecting attachments in headers in imap

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

I don't accept this patch as multipart/mixed is not sufficient as an
heuristic to determine whether or not a message has an attachment.

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 09:32 +0100, Jose Dapena Paz wrote:
> 	Hi,
> 
> 	This patch improves a bit the heuristics to know if a message has
> attachments inside. It retrieves the content type obtained in imap, and,
> if it's a multipart/mixed, then we assume the message has attachments.
> 
> 	We also unref the message we use to get information later, to analyse
> properly the headers of the message.
> 
> Changelog entry:
> * libtinymail-camel/camel-lite/camel/providers/imap/camel-imap-folder.c:
>   (message_from_data): improve the heuristics to know if a message has
>   attachments. First, we don't unref the message too early, so we can
>   analyse the message headers. Second, we use the content type. If it's
>   a multipart/mixed, then we assume it has attachments.
> 
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