Andrea Giuliano wrote: > I see that some of you send their replies as attachments. This is not a > major issue, but could you please avoid this? This could also be an artifact of the list software. Right down the bottom of each normal text e-mail, it puts a short list "footer" (saying that it's from the list, the list address, and how to unsubscribe). If the e-mail is normal text, it can just append that. However, if it is anything more complex (a signed e-mail, an attachment, a "multipart/alternative" text/HTML message, or whatever), it assumes that it can't reliably add a footer, puts the existing e-mail as a new MIME part in a multipart/mixed MIME message, and adds the footer as a different MIME part. I suspect that Mozilla (which the OP uses) is choosing to take this structure and show each part as attachments. This is a valid response: it's just that many other mail clients (e.g. Mutt) will show the text then the footer one after the other. The practice is not so unreasonable. MIME structures can be nested: it's how the format handles alternative plain and HTML formatted messages with attachments, so anything that can handle MIME should be able to decode it. Stuff that *can't* handle MIME is (a) obsolete as a general purpose MUA, and (b) no worse off. Besides, it is practically impossible to reliably add text to an arbitrarily complex HTML message without implementing a HTML reader (how do you know you aren't adding white text on white?) And that's the part that's been causing both Konqueror and Mozilla the most grief. And if you add text to a MIME signed e-mail part, you're going to change the item being signed, and GPG will moan. What do other Mozilla users see? James. -- E-mail address: james | ... File not found, I'll load something *I* think @westexe.demon.co.uk | is interesting.
