GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 607371
An attachment icon is not always shown in the evolution message list for messages with attachments
Last modified: 2010-01-28 10:56:46 UTC
Emails with an attachment are not always marked as such by the paperclip icon in the evolution message list. The icons show for some users emails, but not others, which leads me to suspect that it is linked to the email client used to send the emails. The bug concerns emails in local folders (pop account, haven't checked imap). When I delete the .cmeta .ibex.index and .ibex.index.data of the mail folders in question and let evolution rebuild them, the missing icons do show up correctly again. However any new emails will again suffer from the same problem.
Thanks for a bug report. There was a fix for IMAP on this in bug #550622, but not for POP. Looking around the code the places it seems as "should be working". Could you paste here a message structure for your mails exhibiting the issue, please? It's usually something like: > To: Milan Crha <xxx> > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-ZDf5lnUIBMqMg4PoaLa/" > > ... > --=-ZDf5lnUIBMqMg4PoaLa/ > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > ... > --=-ZDf5lnUIBMqMg4PoaLa/ > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=local > Content-Type: application/x-shellscript; name=local > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > ... >--=-ZDf5lnUIBMqMg4PoaLa/-- thus those "Content-something" lines with boundary lines.
Created attachment 152235 [details] Message structure for email with missing attachment icon
Created attachment 152236 [details] Message structure for email that does show an attachment in the message list
Created attachment 152240 [details] Message structure for a signed email with missing attachment icon
Thanks for the update. The first two shows an attachment to me, when I receive them through the GMail POP interface (I moved the first to GMail in IMAP and the other two redirected from evolution to my GMail account). So it seems correct to me, on 2.29.6 (the signed message shouldn't have an icon, because it doesn't contain any real attachment). Trying the same on 2.28.2 I see the issue, so I looked for particular changes and found that this got fixed for 2.29.4 in bug #604305, thus I'm marking this as a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 604305 ***
Just one last comment; if signed messages shouldn't show an attachment icon in the message list view, why is the icon shown if I rebuild the indices after deleting the .cmeta .ibex.index and .ibex.index.data files?
It was a bug in the code, which is fixed in the above mentioned one. To explain slightly more: before the change in bug #478239 every message with Content-Type: multipart/mixed was automatically marked as having attachments. After that change only some of them were marked, but it turned out to not being the best yet, thus the change in bug #604305.