GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 318301
"attachments" button at the beginning of e-mails very annoying
Last modified: 2005-10-08 22:35:59 UTC
When viewing an e-mail which has attachments, there is an attachment button just beneath the headers and before the body (together with a "save" button). The problem is there are many situations when this button is useless and disrupting: - some mailing-lists include the footer as an attachment (e.g. when the charsets are different) - some images may be displayed inline - etc. In all these situations, there is this button which unnecessarily catches the eye at a very prominent place. It is quite bothering (akin to visual pollution). The button should either be removed, or be displayed only when there are "real" attachments present ("real" being determined by a clever algorithm ;-)). Other information:
hi antoine, thanks for taking the time to report this. i assume that this is a duplicate of bug 312413, feel free to reopen if you disagree. a "clever algorithm" simply cannot exist according to the specifications of multipart messages in the rfc's. cannot tell you more details (i'm not a programmer), but it's extremely hard to tell what are attachments and what are message parts, for example see the comments of bug 237623 or of bug *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 312413 ***