Quote: “The presence of the filename parameter does not force an implementation to write the entity to a separate file. It is perfectly acceptable for implementations to leave the entity as part of the normal mail stream unless the user requests otherwise. As a consequence, the parameter may be used on any MIME entity, even `inline’ ones. These will not normally be written to files, but the parameter could be used to provide a filename if the receiving user should choose to write the part to a file.”
In other words: even if a file has been included in an email with
Content-disposition: inline
Notes ought to allow the user to save that file to disk.
As far as I can tell, this is not possible with text or HTML documents. Am I wrong?
Comment: many email clients set content disposition to inline for included text and HTML files, so this issue is not abstract.
you are correct – notes does not allow one to save a message’s text/plain or text/html part to a separate file.
the rfc2183 passage you quoted is really descriptive, not prescriptive. the rfc suggests that if the recipient chooses to write the part to a file, then the filename parameter value could be used as the resultant file’s name. it does not say that the mail user agent (MUA) MUST provide this feature. however, i’ll concede that, as written, the rfc clearly expects that MUAs have this feature. <-8
i’ll ‘ask around’ to find out if there is any feature like this planned for future releases. if i get a definitive answer, i’ll post it here.
as written, the rfc clearly expects that MUAs have this feature. <-8 > i’ll ‘ask around’ to find out if there is any feature like this planned for future releases.
if i get a definitive answer, i’ll post it here.
Thanks! I would like to add that lack of this feature is a real impediment to normal work flow. It came to my attention when staff were unable to save HTML files to disk, as they needed to. (As you probably know, it is a fairly standard practice for email clients to include text and HTML files with content disposition set to inline. As far as I know, Notes is the only client that breaks access to the file in this case.) Perhaps you could mention this.