On 2/7/2016 7:27 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 08.02.2016 um 00:05 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>> Is there a way to get Thunderbird to reliably show the little paperclip
>> next to newsgroup messages? It seems to only do this for the first post
>> in a thread, and only after you view the post instead of before.
>
> It seems to reliably show paperclips here.
>
> It can /never/ do this before you have viewed the post though, because
> technically newsgroup attachments are just specially marked parts of the
> message body; there is no (reliable) way to tell from the header only
> whether a post has attachments.
>
> Note that in newsgroups, the message body is only downloaded as soon as
> you view the post.
>

For me, they do not show up in replies, even after viewing the post. It 
is kind of irritating since I can't tell for sure when someone replies 
with another image.


Mike

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