Re: Sending attachments

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Jul 09 2009, Richard Stallman wrote:

> I searched several weeks of incoming mail and disposition=inline
> never appears.

There are many examples in emacs-devel:

/var/spool/news/gmane/emacs/devel# grep 
'^Content-Disposition:.*inline.*filename' *|wc -l
40

Most MUAs (Mail User Agents) probably don't offer to any choice to
the user.

> Viewing text inline is very useful, but that doesn't mean sending
> disposition=inline is useful.  

"disposition" is more or less a recommendation for the receiving agent
how to display it.

> Both rmailmm and Etach display some text parts inline, and they
> don't need to see disposition=inline to do it.

Neither does Gnus (and probably MH-E, too).  Viewing inline
vs. attachment can be toggled interactively or specified through
`mm-inline-override-types'.

Bye, Reiner.
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