Multipart issues (WAS: Re: Restart F32 WiFi on ThinkPad P72)

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On Thu, 2020-05-28 at 13:20 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-05-27 at 19:55 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > I don't know Evolution, but if it's presenting choices for
> > the multipart/alternative part, then that latter text/plain
> > part wouldn't be included as an option.
> 
> When you have a mail with multiple parts, there should be some sane
> logic applied to handling it.  If you have a multi-part alternative
> section, then you should get to see one of those parts by default,
> ignoring the alternatives.  When you have another section tacked on
> that is NOT one of the alternatives, it should always be displayed.
> 
> 
>     plain                 HTML
>     text          or      text
>     message               message
> 
>                    &
> 
>                 PGP
>                 signatures
> 
>                    &
> 
>                  list
>                 footers
> 
> Each of those blocks is a section.  Only the first two are an OR
> situation, everything else is an AND.  The ORed sections should be
> treated the same whether you're reading a message, or replying to it.
> 
> Quite how his Evolution created a blank plain-text session I don't
> know, as I can't see an option for whether, or not, to also create a
> plain text section when you're creating a HTML message.
> 
> I have noticed Evolution screw up when deleting parts of messages,
> before.  Such as trying to trim out quotes.  I'd noticed that if I
> tried to remove a few words, it'd often remove the entire quoted
> message.  I'd have to copy the text to somewhere else, edit it, then
> paste it back in again.  So it's message editor is a bit wacky, as far
> as I'm concerned.

I'll try to take this up on the Evolution list, which (luckily) I
haven't done yet.

poc
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