[Users] Attachment icon not showing

[Dustin Miller]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 09:43:30 +0200
Milan Obuch <claws-mail-users at dino.sk> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0200
> Kolusion K <kolusion at post.com> wrote:
> 
> > I just installed Claws Mail version 3.17.5 ... . I have a problem
> > and hope that somebody can help me out.
> > 
> > The problem is that the attachment icon does not show in the inbox
> > view unless I click on or open a message.
> 
> I can only confirm the same behaviour here. I am using IMAP, so things
> could be different for POP3 users.
> 
DM: I can confirm that it also happens with POP3 accounts for at least
some emails. The other thing I've noticed is that after I've removed
all (besides HTML) attachments from an email (maybe only emails with an
HTML part?), it will still show the attachment icon in the message
list, whereas if I had received the same email without any attachments
I wouldn't see that behavior. It would be great if these things were
fixed, but it hasn't bothered me enough to try to trouble-shoot it
myself. ---Dustin
> 
> From my memory, I think when messages are being downloaded, only
> headers are read first, and the whole message read when message is
> being selected/read. Maybe this is configurable, I can't find
> anything related in configuration dialogs.
> 
> The problem, probably, may even not be connected with the way how
> message content is downloaded, but how the message is being analysed
> for various bits of information being displayed in summary. It could
> look just into message headers, which could speed things up, but does
> not allow for reliable and accurate determination of some bits
> (attachment or PGP signature - special kind of attachment, usually)
> being displayed.
> 
> I know this does not help you to solve the issue, and I don't know
> exact details of it. I do not consider it so much pressing for me, so
> I did not bother look into it more, but I agree it could be somehow
> misleading.