Notification for hided MIME parts...

Example HTML message - Moved from SF. Original author: stevebow

As already pointed out in an email, this particular is more than broken. It first uses an "big5" charset definition which doesn't exist at all. And then also the alternative "test/plain" MIME part is completly empty which break the RFC for "multipart/alternative"

Sorry, but there is no way and reason wor workaround such broken emails., especially if they SPAM mails like that one.

Moved from SF. Original poster: damato

Oh, FFS, I told you in the ML it's not spam. It is an announcement ML I am on.

The issue /really/ here - as was mentioned in the ML - is that there is no notification by YAM that it is not displaying a broken message. How about a requester pop up as does happen with broken uuencoded messages instead? I am not asking for YAM to work around such broken e-mails, that is ridiculous, the combinations of malformations would keep you busy forever! A notification would alert the user to a problem, so that person may use the Display Message function instead if they choose.

Should I open a new feature request or reopen this one as a feature request? Hint hint.

Moved from SF. Original poster: stevebow

Well, the problem is, YAM doesn't know and can't find out that the mail is broken. Syntactically (looking at the MIME structuring) the mail is perfectly fine - but it's content is what I would say "broken". So there is no real way in analyzing the content as that would slow down YAM dramatically. the only chance I see to notify the user is to show some kind of notification to the user that the mail contains some hidden alternative parts.

So I will move that ticket to the feature tracker requesting such a notification possibility.

Moved from SF. Original poster: damato