[MlMt] attachment in headers display

Zvi Biener zvistrash at gmail.com
Wed Apr 24 13:04:08 EDT 2019


Thanks. Indeed, I have the paperclip and the bottom-listing displayed 
already. I was just curious, as the headers display is a particularly 
efficient way (for me) to get information. Thanks.

On 24 Apr 2019, at 11:11, Randall Gellens wrote:

> My apologies, I accidentally typed an invalid header field name (I 
> typed "Attachment-Disposition" when of course I was thinking 
> "Content-Disposition").
>
> --Randall
>
> On 24 Apr 2019, at 7:38, Randall Gellens wrote:
>
>> On 24 Apr 2019, at 5:27, Zvi Biener wrote:
>>
>>> Apologies for being unclear. By "headers display", I mean the set of 
>>> information that you can alter through the View->Headers menu. 
>>> "Attachment information" would be, well, information about 
>>> attachments. Their number and names, for example.
>>>
>>> I am also skeptical that this can be accessed through the relevant 
>>> plist for View->Headers, but worth asking.
>>
>> There is no standardized top-level header field for attachment 
>> information.  A message with attachments has a top-level Content-Type 
>> header field of multipart; each attachment is a body part with a 
>> Content-Type header field and typically an Attachment-Disposition 
>> header field indicating if the attachment is intended to be displayed 
>> in-line versus handled as a classic attachment.  So I don't think 
>> attachment information logically belongs in the header view.
>>
>> However, MailMate does have options to display information about each 
>> attachment either at the top or bottom of a message.  There is also 
>> the ability to display a paperclip icon for a message with an 
>> attachment in the table of contents view.  If you right-click a 
>> message in the table of contents view, MailMate has some contextual 
>> menu items for attachments, including quick view and save.
>>
>> --Randall
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