On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:59:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:46:47PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > Unless there's a strong preference to keep things the way they are, I'd > > like to prepare a patch to change that -- so speak up now. > > Many e-mail clients require the user to explicitly open an attached > e-mail message in order to view the contents. I'd much rather not have > to do that in order to discover why a bug has been closed - it's much > more friendly to have the explanation from the e-mail in line in the > close message.
Usually this is controlled by the Content-Disposition: header. "Content-Disposition: inline" should be displayed inline; "Content-Disposition: attachment" will often be hidden until explicitly opened. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]