182035 - Body Sanitized/AsPlain: This msg doesn't display

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

Description

[FZiegler]

The attached multipart/alternative message displays OK in HTML or Simple HTML,
but nothing in Plain Text mode. (Maybe only because no mime type is set for that
part -- and therefore not a bug? Still, I would think that the sender intended
it to be readable.)

Comment 1

[FZiegler]

Attachment: multipart/alternative, doesn't display in plain text mode

The problem is the lack of a Mime descriptor for the first alternative part. If
I add:

Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"

after "--this-is-a-separator-for-mime-parts", then it displays fine. So I guess

the question is, should this be fixed or ascribed to "evangelism"?

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

general libmime issue -> default owner

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Accepting

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: Shows blank in plain text mode

This one shows as completely blank in plain text mode, but does have the
content type header.

Comment 5

[FZiegler]

Johann: I think what you are seeing is different and not a bug. It's just a
multipart/alternative message whose text/plain section happens to be empty.

Comment 6

[Malcolm Rowe]

There's nothing in RFC 1521 that mandates a Content-Type for message parts, as 
far as I can see, indeed there is an explicit note that the default Content-
Type for complete messages is text/plain, US-ASCII.

Comment 7

[buovjaga]

Opening attachment 107482 [details] and doing View -> Message Body As -> Plain text, I do see some elements like

<#earthlink> 	<#kidsafe> 			
<#ireview> 		
<#homepage> 	<#didyou> 		
<#idisk> 
	<http://www.apple.com/earthlink/jump/earthlink_jump1.html>

..and other links and most importantly the only real text section from the footer:

Copyright ©2000 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.
Subscribe/Unsubscribe <https://itools.mac.com/WebObjects/Account.woa> | Privacy 
Policy <http://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/>

Let's close this oldie.

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