[MlMt] a message confuses MailMate on one computer

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Wed Nov 11 11:04:04 EST 2015



On 11 Nov 2015, at 10:49, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 11 Nov 2015, at 15:57, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> Mine was not plaintext; it was a message with several attached PDFs.
>
> It can have attachments. I'm referring to the text part of the message 
> which is often structured like this:
>
> 	multipart/alternative
> 		text/plain
> 		text/html
>
> By default MailMate would then show the HTML alternative (and thus not 
> use the script). If the user has enabled “Prefer Plain Text” then 
> almost all emails would trigger the script to be used.
>
It was multipart/mixed with no body other than three attachments.



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