Invisible attached files?

2019-04-26 Thread Marc Baaden
Hi, I am a long-time exmh/nmh user and for some time now (a year or so), some of the people I send mail with attachments to complain they don't see any attached file. In these cases I verified and the attachment has indeed been sent. Most of the times this seems to happen with Apple Mail. Wh

Re: Invisible attached files?

2019-04-26 Thread Ken Hornstein
>I am a long-time exmh/nmh user and for some time now (a year or so), >some of the people I send mail with attachments to complain they don't >see any attached file. In these cases I verified and the attachment has >indeed been sent. How do you create attachments? Are you just using sedit? (yik

Re: Invisible attached files?

2019-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Ken Hornstein, In message <20190426113532.4f96144...@pb-smtp21.pobox.com> you wrote: > >I am a long-time exmh/nmh user and for some time now (a year or so), > >some of the people I send mail with attachments to complain they don't > >see any attached file. In these cases I verified and the a

Re: Invisible attached files?

2019-04-26 Thread Marc Baaden
Hello, Indeed, I use sedit and its function More...>Attachment>Attach File... If I look at the raw file, it marks the content-type as multipart/mixed and defines a boundary. In the attached file I see a "Content-Disposition: attachment;" for instance, if that is what you mean. What should I

Re: Invisible attached files?

2019-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Ken Hornstein, I wrote: > No, this is indeed a "feature" of Apple Mail (seen for example with > version 2.3445.102.3, but also many times before). Attached below is an example message (the one I referred to in my previous message), where I stripped only the irrelevant parts (i. e. the actua

Re: Invisible attached files?

2019-04-26 Thread Marc Baaden
Dear Wolfgang, Thank you for your feedback, but this is actually the other way round compared to my initial question, if I understand your comment right: - what you say, is someone sends an email with attachment from Apple Mail and when you try to open it in exmh it does not show the attachm

Re: Invisible attached files?

2019-04-26 Thread Ken Hornstein
>If I look at the raw file, it marks the content-type as multipart/mixed >and defines a boundary. In the attached file I see a >"Content-Disposition: attachment;" for instance, if that is what you >mean. Huh, dang. I am wrong, because that is correct. I am assuming the whole line is something

Re: Invisible attached files?

2019-04-26 Thread Ken Hornstein
> (multipart/signed) >1. (multipart/alternative) >There are alternative views of the following: (Invoke menu with right button.) >-- > (text/plain) >Message text. >-- Marc explained that it's the OPPOSITE problem ... certain mail he sends out has the recipients not seeing the attachments.

Re: Invisible attached files?

2019-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Marc, In message <20190426124205.9f5a13181...@raba.ibpc.fr> you wrote: > > Thank you for your feedback, but this is actually the other way round > compared to my initial question, if I understand your comment right: Oops, sorry... > - what you say, is someone sends an email with attachmen

Re: Invisible attached files?

2019-04-26 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 13:51:56 +0200, Wolfgang Denk said: > Only if I follow the hint "Invoke menu with right button." I will > get a menu: > > Decode part as MIME > Save a multipart/alternative... > Print a multipart/alternative as text... > Show alternative 1: text/plain >