Re: indicate email has attachment in summary buffer

[Leon]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Leon wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>>> On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Leon wrote:
>>>> Do you think this is reliable to match all emails with attachment?
>>>
>>> It also matches other articles (e.g. various text/plain parts with
>>> different charset), but these articles are quite rare.
> [...]
>> Actually I just met one such email. Gnus didn't show any attachment in
>> article buffer, but thunderbird did. 
>
> What is the value of the Content-Type header of this mail?  E.g. if
> someone sends[1] a PDF or an image without any accompanying text, you
> might get application/pdf or image/jpeg.
>

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1171174969=="

I have also tried to send an email with only a pdf file. Thunderbird
failed to show the 'paperclip' icon before reading the email. After I
open the email, the icon is back.

>
>> Is there any standard way of testing if an email has attachment?
>
> First you need to define the term "attachment" properly.
>

A lot of other email clients will show a `paperclip' icon for emails
that have `attachment'. I'm looking for a similar behavior in gnus.

> Bye, Reiner.
>
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  E.g.: mutt -s "this is the image" -a foo.jpg < /dev/null

-- 
Leon