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multipart emails with attachments don't display properly on iOS devices #590

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landlord11 opened this issue Jul 26, 2013 · 6 comments
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multipart emails with attachments don't display properly on iOS devices #590

landlord11 opened this issue Jul 26, 2013 · 6 comments

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@landlord11
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When composing a mail with a multipart/alternative body the attachments are lumped into the same multipart/alternative part as the message body alternatives. iOS devices will display only one of the parts, typically the last attachment (i.e., only one attachment and no body displays).

The solution is that the multipart/alternative part should only contain the text_part and html_part, and that part should be added to an enclosing multipart/mixed that also holds the attachments. This can be constructed using the existing module doing something along these lines:

mail=Mail.new do |mail|
  @bodypart = Mail::Part.new do
    text_part do
      body "this is my message"
    end
    html_part do
      content_type 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
      body %Q[<html><body>this is my message in HTML</body></html>]
    end
  end
  add_part @bodypart
end
# add attachments

A message built this way will work with iOS. Can the library be altered to make this unnecessary (i.e., so using text_part and html_part automatically structure the message this way?) Thanks.
@dclausen
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I'm also experiencing this issue using Mail.app on a OSX 10.8.4 after upgrading from mail-2.3.3 to mail-2.5.3

chrismdp pushed a commit to chrismdp/dotfiles that referenced this issue Oct 7, 2013
Ruby script for mangling mail to allow HTML part as markdown
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The old perl file was inpenetrable: this is a bit slower but does the
job. Note the need for `bodypart` (cf. mikel/mail#590)
@chrismdp
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chrismdp commented Oct 7, 2013

I get the same problem: the workaround is shown in the commit above.

@steve500002
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I have the same problem but am unable to get the workaround above to solve the problem. I just cannot seem to add attachments in a way that iOS can handle. Has anyone have a simple example they can share?

@chrismdp
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@steve500002 I wrote a bit more about it here:

http://chrismdp.com/2013/10/using-markdown-to-send-html-email-via-mutt/

Does that help?

@steve500002
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Thanks Chris - that helped me understand what I needed to do to get iOS to display the emails correctly.

For others - the key is that (as Chris says in link above) is to have the attachments outside the multipart/alternative block.

I have a gist (https://gist.github.com/steve500002/bfc4b027d93c0c04f126) with my code that builds an email to send so you can see the steps I took to get this to work.

@bicz
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bicz commented Jun 9, 2014

Thanks. This workaround works perfectly.

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