Hi folks!
Today a workmate asked me for help with sending textfiles as attachments to e-mails because he wasn't able to download the attached files on the target machine. After a lot of trying and debugging we found out some quite interesting things which I would like to discuss here.
Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. do all support showing the plain text attachments inline + showing them as (downloadable) attachments.
The webinterfaces of GMX, Gmail, etc. don't support this while Horde's Imp (I think this is what most universities and most Austrian providers use) works fine with plaintext attachments, e.g. you can see the attachments inlined after the original message and you can download them file by file as attachments.
As to my understanding, this is the expected behaviour. I tried with Roundcube (probably not the latest version I have to admit) and it behaved exactly the same as all other webmails did: No chance to download the plaintext files separately.
What do you guys think about it? Personally I think it would make sense to implement this and allow for downloading plain text attachments - or is this functionality already implemented in the latest roundcube version?
ciao,
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On Feb 18, 2008 4:32 PM, Alexander Griesser work@tuxx-home.at wrote:
As to my understanding, this is the expected behaviour. I tried with Roundcube (probably not the latest version I have to admit) and it behaved exactly the same as all other webmails did: No chance to download the plaintext files separately.
The current behavior of RoundCube depends on the Content-Disposition: header of the according message part. If it's set to "inline" the text will be displayed as part of the message body but without the possibility to download it separately. In case the message-disposition is "attachment" you can download it but it's not displayed inline.
What do you guys think about it? Personally I think it would make sense to implement this and allow for downloading plain text attachments - or is this functionality already implemented in the latest roundcube version?
I agree that this could be improved as Thunderbird does it: show inline AND allow to download it in both cases. But since RoundCube is a webmail client, we need to check the contents of the text part before displaying it inline in order to prevent XSS.
Feel free to open a new feature request ticket at http://trac.roundcube.net for this new behavior.
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:32:29 +1100, Alexander Griesser work@tuxx-home.at
wrote:
Hi folks!
Today a workmate asked me for help with sending textfiles as attachments to e-mails because he wasn't able to download the attached files on the target machine. After a lot of trying and debugging we found out some quite interesting things which I would like to discuss here.
Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. do all support showing the plain text attachments inline + showing them as (downloadable) attachments.
The webinterfaces of GMX, Gmail, etc. don't support this while Horde's Imp (I think this is what most universities and most Austrian providers use) works fine with plaintext attachments, e.g. you can see the attachments inlined after the original message and you can download them file by file as attachments.
As to my understanding, this is the expected behaviour. I tried with Roundcube (probably not the latest version I have to admit) and it behaved exactly the same as all other webmails did: No chance to download the plaintext files separately.
What do you guys think about it? Personally I think it would make sense to implement this and allow for downloading plain text attachments - or is this functionality already implemented in the latest roundcube version?
ciao,
That would be a vital feature that i'd like to see and has been in the
back of my mind for sometime.
Email content should be accessible in all forms for download/export
regardless of their 'part' in the mail.
Text extracts should be easily downloaded, copied to clipboard etc. like
source code/paste bins etc.
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