Scott MacGregor has actually been working on trying to improve this. Some
ideas we have been looking at are posted here:
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/threepane/Attachments.html
Feedback appreciated.
Ben Bucksch wrote:
> WIth the small attachments button being the only indicatior for
> attachments, and the fact that inline stuff like vCards counts as
> attachments, it is currently very easy to overlook attachments.
>
> Attachments are an important part of msgs, sometimes the most important
> one. When composing such msgs myself, I often do not put any verbiage
> into the msg body that hints to the msg.
>
> I.e. it is quite possible that a user completely misses the point of
> msgs. I leave it up to you to figure out the consequences (missing
> deadlines etc.).
>
> Thinking about 4.x, a solution seems easy: Just put a note at the end of
> the body, that there are attachments, in they aren't all inline. Or,
> imitate 4.x completely and add links for each of the non-inline
> attachments. Shouldn't be hard and completely solves the problem.
>
> Anyone has a better suggestion? Opinions?
