POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Thunderbird file attachments : Re: Thunderbird file attachments Server Time
3 Jul 2024 00:53:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Thunderbird file attachments  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 8 Feb 2016 07:26:04
Message: <56b8895c$1@news.povray.org>
On 8-2-2016 13:14, Mike Horvath wrote:
> 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.
>

It is strange. For me they show up correctly, also for replies.


-- 
Thomas


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