GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 370084
Can't save or manipulate inline images
Last modified: 2006-11-04 03:49:13 UTC
Often someone will send an email that contains an image inline. It isn't an attachment, nor is it an html <IMG> tag. It's just an image inline as part of the email. When one of these is received, there should be a way to copy/paste, save to file, or whatever to the image. A possible usage scenario might be that the user right-clicks on the image, calling up a menu with "Save image as..." on it, or something like that. Other information:
huh? it's gotta be an html img tag or an attachment (or both).
Perhaps it's an attachment, in some strict sense of the word, but it doesn't show up like one. I've gotten plenty of emails with images that are attachments, and I can save those, view them inline, etc. But there are others, embedded into the email, that are not attachments. The difference seems to be the presence or absence of the "Content-Disposition" line in the part of the message containing the image. If it's there (and says "attachment") then the image gets treated like an attachment. If it's not there, then the image is displayed inline, but Evolution doesn't let you *do* anything with it.
I just noticed an additional twist: If you use the "Insert Image" while composing an email in Evolution, it will insert the image as an attachment, and then place an <IMG> tag with the SRC attribute pointing to the mime part ID where the attachment is. In this case, there /is/ a "Content-Disposition: attachment" line. However, as in the case cited above, Evolution does not give the standard attachment handling options.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 317823 ***