[Users] Question regarding forward of HTML e-mails

[Michael Gmelin]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:05:22 +0200
Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 14:51:13 +0200
> Colin Leroy <colin at colino.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 08 August 2012 at 23h09, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > > So my question is: Since modifying HTML content is outside of
> > > claws' scope, is there an option to remove HTML alternatives on
> > > forward automatically (or turn the HTML alternative into an
> > > attachment).
> > 
> > It is turned into an attachment, since that commit:
> > 
> > 2010-12-23 [colin]      3.7.8cvs23
> > 
> >         * src/compose.c
> >                 Finish fixing bug #2203: When forwarding (inline)
> > and there are some text/* parts with no name, set them a
> >           	name and set their disposition to attachment, so
> > that recipients with MUAs preferring HTML parts don't show
> >           	them by default.
> > 
> > Strange that your recipient looked at the HTML part by default since
> > it seems you're using 3.8.1.
> > 
> 
> I'm using 3.8.1, that's correct. Right now I have no chance to check
> myself how the E-Mail got represented in the specific Outlook instance
> of that person.
> 
> If I enable "Message View -> Text options -> Select the HTML part of
> multipart/alternative messages" in Claws and select the forwarded
> E-Mail in my Sent folder, the HTML part is opened at first too (so
> same behavior as I suspect happening in Outlook - the iPhone for
> instance selects the plain text alternative by default).
> 
> The original mail looks like this:
> 
> [...]
> References: <609863e5.00001258.00000150 at bm-lptp>
> In-Reply-To: <609863e5.00001258.00000150 at bm-lptp>
> [...]
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> 	boundary="----=_NextPart_000_04D6_01CD7553.E1899D00"
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0
> [...]
> ------=_NextPart_000_04D6_01CD7553.E1899D00
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> 	charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> Text...
> 
> ------=_NextPart_000_04D6_01CD7553.E1899D00
> Content-Type: text/html;
> 	charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> HTML Content
> 
> ------=_NextPart_000_04D6_01CD7553.E1899D00--
> 
> 
> The forwarded message looks like this:
> 
> [...]
> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0)
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="MP_/+FaUTOv1rN5Uz2RHkFtTw/U"
> [...]
> --MP_/+FaUTOv1rN5Uz2RHkFtTw/U
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> Content-Disposition: inline
> 
> My comments + text
> 
> --MP_/+FaUTOv1rN5Uz2RHkFtTw/U
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> The original HTML
> 
> --MP_/+FaUTOv1rN5Uz2RHkFtTw/U--
> 
> I checked the C source, and the patch from 3.7.8cvs23 is still in
> there (charsets differ in the parts on reply, since I send everything
> UTF-8).
> 
> I am able to reproduce this issue reliably - when composing the
> forwarded message, the html part shows up in the attachments tab, but
> without a name set (I would expect it to show "Original %s part").

%s being the mime sub type (html in this case).

> 
> I hope that's enough input to analyze the issue - I would like to
> avoid reading up on the source code myself.
> 



-- 
Michael Gmelin