Re: OT: Email basics (was Re: Email Format Poll for the list)

[David Godfrey <..hidden..>]

My apologies, I misread what you said.
Despite that, the email you responded with had
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

and a quick grep of my mail folder shows only 188 messages of 2040 with a 
Content-Type of text/plain also have format=flowed.
That is just over 9% of the "text" parts of my received email.
So while Thunderbird may technically work as it is supposed to, 90% of the 
emails I have received do not have a flowed disposition.
I do not suggest mozilla should fix this, but the clients that send email 
incorrectly certainly should.

As we have gone way off topic I will leave this here. (before I dig an even 
deeper hole for myself :)

Regards
David G

David F. Skoll wrote:
> David Godfrey wrote:
>
> > Sorry for the misunderstanding, I am aware that Thunderbird handles
> > flowed text in HTML fine.
>
> I'm not talking about HTML.  I'm talking about plain text, as in:
>
>     Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
>
> > With regard to multipart sections appearing as attachments, are you
> > saying that Thunderbird should not display them as attachments?
>
> I'm suggesting that Thunderbird does the Right Thing in this case.  It
> obeys the Content-Disposition: MIME header (which is set by the sending
> software.)
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
>
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