Paper Clips

audiodan · 3 Aug 2004, 08:16 PM

Ok I'm sure there is an easy answer to this one and it's not all that important, but.... why does the paperclip sometimes appear next to emails which seem not to have any attachments?

Even if I send an email to myself, with a URL in it for example.

trond · 3 Aug 2004, 09:58 PM

The paper clip shows up on all mails that are sent as multiparts. Unfortunately, there are a few programs that creates multipart mails with only one part. It's a bit hard to tell the difference without actually reading through the mail.

In addition, there are a couple of multipart types that doesn't really contain attachments. e.g. multipart/related which normally contains a HTML-message and images to be displayed inline or multipart/alternative which normally contains an HTML and a text version of a message.

audiodan · 4 Aug 2004, 12:07 AM

Thanks for the reply, i guess the paper clip is just an indication that the email may have an attachment

3 Aug 2004, 08:16 PM	#1
audiodan Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: London Posts: 69	Paper Clips Ok I'm sure there is an easy answer to this one and it's not all that important, but.... why does the paperclip sometimes appear next to emails which seem not to have any attachments? Even if I send an email to myself, with a URL in it for example. Last edited by audiodan : 3 Aug 2004 at 08:21 PM.

3 Aug 2004, 09:58 PM	#2
trond Essential Contributor Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 344	The paper clip shows up on all mails that are sent as multiparts. Unfortunately, there are a few programs that creates multipart mails with only one part. It's a bit hard to tell the difference without actually reading through the mail. In addition, there are a couple of multipart types that doesn't really contain attachments. e.g. multipart/related which normally contains a HTML-message and images to be displayed inline or multipart/alternative which normally contains an HTML and a text version of a message.

4 Aug 2004, 12:07 AM	#3
audiodan Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: London Posts: 69	Thanks for the reply, i guess the paper clip is just an indication that the email may have an attachment