| Jeff Abrahamson on 3 Nov 2005 15:20:00 -0000 |
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:04:50AM -0500, Toby DiPasquale wrote: > [53 lines, 382 words, 2594 characters] Top characters: teaisnho > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 07:50:44AM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > > I have a friend who is using Apple Mail who is having trouble sending > > me image attachments. Or, rather, I'm having trouble receiving them. > > > > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) > > > > The problem is that while his MUA should (and used to) do something > > like this: > > > > I 1 <no description> [text/plain, 7bit, us-ascii, 0.3K] > > I 2 chris_southern_ca_siding.jpg [image/jpeg, base64, 8.7M] > > > > It's actually started doing this: > > > > I 1 <no description> [multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 2.7M] > > I 2 <no description> [text/plain, quoted, utf-8, 0.6K] > > I 3 <no description> [multipa/related, 7bit, 2.7M] > > I 4 <no description> [text/html, quoted, iso-8859-1, 2.2K] > > I 5 IMG_2965.JPG [image/jpeg, base64, 2.7M] > > > > Note that the image attachment is part of the text/html bundle and so > > the supposedly equivalent text/plain bundle doesn't get the pic. > > > > At first I thought this was a simple drag-and-drop vs attach subtlety, > > but he says no. Any suggestions how either to help him or compensate > > here? (The problem is that I'm not shown that there's an image > > attached, although I can see, if I notice, that the message is much > > bigger than the text would suggest.) > > I hate to break this to you, but Apple Mail is doing the correct thing > here. This is the standard way to wrap an embedded image in an > HTML-formatted message which also carries a plain text part for MUAs that > can't display HTML. I'm not clear why this is the right thing, although I agree with everything you said other than that one bit. If I attach a file that is not image/jpeg, say a Word file or a PDF, I wouldn't expect that to get slipped into the text/html portion, even though an html browser can probably display it. There's a context where image/jpeg should be embedded in the text/html, say because it's linked. But there's also a context where you're saying, "Here's an attached file." Why should the latter be precluded for image/* attachments? (Maybe it is, I'd just like to understand why.) -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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