[Users] Attachment icon not showing

[Milan Obuch]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 14:26:57 +0600
Dustin Miller <dustbiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

How did you remove the attachments? If you did manipulate the files in
mailbox directly, then what you see after your modification are *cached*
results from message analysing done when mail is initially received. I
don't know where this cache could be removed for POP3 account. For IMAP
account, you can 'Rebuild folder tree' from account context menu which
could do the trick. This could take quite some time for large mailboxes.
(Maybe cache is not the right term, but given the behaviour, it fits
for me well.)

If I do something like this, I am editing the file on the server, I move
it somewhere away, do download/synchronisation, so entry for this mail
in cache is removed, and then move the modified mail into place, and
again do download, so mail analysis is forced to be done again. Maybe
easier method exists, maybe not. I do not need it that often, so I did
not looked into it more.

Regards,
Milan