[MlMt] Unclickable attachments in accepted meeting

Robert McClure sharkez at gmail.com
Wed Jan 22 00:06:27 EST 2014


It seems that these CID: attachments only show up when multiple 
attachments are included in the file. They are not "clickable" even 
though they seem that they should be (curser changes) - they are greyed 
out. Opening the containing email would be great.

--
Rob
Sharkez at g

On 21 Jan 2014, at 2:55, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 20 Jan 2014, at 23:10, Robert McClure wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>> I use Busycal and when I click on a meeting appointment that is 
>> included in an email invite, and that invite (.ics) has attachments, 
>> the resulting appointment in Busycal has an attached file that starts 
>> with "CID:" with numbers and @... but that item in busycal is NOT 
>> clickable and therefore I can't get to the attached file from within 
>> busycal. The same thing seems to happen with Calendar.
>>
>> Is there something not working correctly or is this the expected 
>> behavior? I would think I should be able to click on the file 
>> reference from within the meeting item in BusyCal (or Calendar) and 
>> either go to the email with the attachments, or actually open the 
>> file itself.
>
> This is not something I've tried myself. I would probably need an 
> example message to understand it better. If the `cid:` links were 
> clickable in Busycal then MailMate should, in theory, locate the 
> related attachment, but I'm not sure this works since I don't use this 
> feature.
>
> Quick test. This works (in the Terminal):
>
> 	open "mid:6470ACF1-3A10-4261-B8BB-22F3ED2E4C7C at gmail.com"
>
> But this doesn't (testing with an old attachment sent to this mailing 
> list):
>
> 	open "cid:F3AECC04-57FE-4907-AD81-B1BB6F7AE3B2 at mac.com"
>
> I've just fixed it such that the latter works by opening the message 
> with the given attachment. Showing CIDs as links is Busycal/Calendar 
> is not a MailMate issue.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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