From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.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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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 20:25:02 +0200
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On Mon, 07 Mar 2016, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
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> 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 [filenam=
e.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.


BR,
Jani.