Re: Email with multiple parts
By: deon to Digital Man on Wed Jun 07 2023 05:51 pm
Hey DM,
I received an email today with multiple parts:
$ grep Next msg_5939.txt
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_008C_01D998A5.F0960690"
------=_NextPart_000_008C_01D998A5.F0960690
boundary="----=_NextPart_001_008D_01D998A5.F0960690"
------=_NextPart_001_008D_01D998A5.F0960690
------=_NextPart_001_008D_01D998A5.F0960690
------=_NextPart_001_008D_01D998A5.F0960690--
------=_NextPart_000_008C_01D998A5.F0960690
------=_NextPart_000_008C_01D998A5.F0960690--
but Email -> Read was only showing me the first "001_008D" part of the message. I wasnt aware that there were other parts unless I downloaded the message, ie List -> Select Message -> Download.
Typically there's only one plain-text part (useful for reading in a terminal) per message. But if you want to see all parts, enabling Raw I/O mode (Ctrl-Z) will do that.
Even smbutil -rxxx didnt show the full message.
'-rxxx' doesn't ring a bell. "smbutil r[xxx] -r" (where [xxx] is the message number) would display the raw (non MIME-decoded message body).
Should it have shown or otherwise enabled me to download the other parts?
I suppose it (msglist.js?) could display an indicator that there are non-visible parts. Some parts (e.g. html, inline images) just aren't very useful to be shown to a terminal user.
This makes email via the BBS unreliable if attachments or other parts of the message are not accessible.
In case you need it:
_NextPart_000_008C_01D998A5.F0960690 - Content-Type: multipart/alternative _NextPart_001_008D_01D998A5.F0960690 - Content-Type: text/plain; _NextPart_001_008D_01D998A5.F0960690 - Content-Type: text/html _NextPart_000_008C_01D998A5.F0960690 - Content-Type: text/plain
I would expect only the first text/plain part to be pulled from the message body by default.
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