To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>,
 notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] emacs/mua: Generate improved cited text for
 replies
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From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:49:23 +0000
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On Mon, Mar 07 2016, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Mar 2016, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
>> [ text/plain ]
>> On Mon, Mar 07 2016, Jani Nikula wrote:
>>> For a message with mime structure:
>>>
>>> =E2=94=94=E2=94=AC=E2=95=B4multipart/mixed 120338 bytes
>>>  =E2=94=9C=E2=94=80=E2=95=B4text/html 59234 bytes
>>>  =E2=94=94=E2=94=80=E2=95=B4application/octet-stream attachment [filena=
me.html] 59234 bytes
>>
>> How is this displayed when viewing the message (as opposed to replying)?
>
> Both parts are displayed roughly similarly as html, with the error
> message in between. The latter part has some images the former part
> doesn't have.
>
>> How do you think that it is intended to be displayed? Are they two
>> sub-parts of the multipart/mixed intended to be alternatives? (It
>> doesn't seem so, as you mention later that they have the same content.)
>
> I think they're intended to be alternatives, but there's really no way
> to deduce that.
>
> IMO it's sufficient to try get rid of the error message in show and
> reply.

Ah, I didn't realise that the error was shown when you view the message
normally. Well, in that case, the reply changes are working as designed
in this respect ;-)

(But it's obviously still a bug that you get the message at all.)