Icons for Attachments in message list

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Hello,

for me, the icon with the paper clip only appears for attachments such as jpg. But surprisingly not in every Mail.

I miss an icon or a note at the top of the message list that a mail also contains attachments such as pdf, or txt.

This makes it easier to search only for mails with attachments.
Would it be possible to introduce this?
Thanks in advance, Thatsme

EDIT:
It seems to have something to do with the encryption.
I have noticed that no paperclip appears in encrypted mails.
But I don’t know how to solve the problem.

2

Which app are you referring to?

3

Sorry!
It is Evolution 3.56.1 with Artix Linux (based on Arch)

4

Hi,
encrypted mails are trouble. The code (depending what you use, I
suppose it’s IMAP) checks whether there are any attachments from the
message structure, without downloading the whole message, but the
structure only says it’s an encrypted mail, without exposing the
encrypted parts. Even with the whole message, to get its complete
structure the app needs to decrypt it, which means to get your private
key, which means a password prompt, thus it cannot do it under the
hood, because out of blue password prompts do not help anybody.

Evolution used to mark messages with the “has attachment” flag when the
user viewed the message. It decrypted it after a user action and added
the flag if needed. Does that not work for you, please?

Bye,
Milan
5

Thank you.
It seems, the problem is only with encrypted mails.

Do you mean only for encrypted mails?
With encrypted mails, there is generally no “has attachment flag” visible for me.
Nothing when the message is received, nothing when the message has been read, nothing when the attachment has been opened.

Irritating
In my son’s encrypted mails I see the “has attachment” flag if it is a jpg. With pdf or csv and txt attachments I see nothing.
I don’t know why that is.
As far as I know, you can set somewhere in the encryption program whether attachments should also be encrypted and/or displayed. But I’m not quite sure.

I see the icon for all unencrypted mails. So the problem is only with encrypted mails.

So my question is answered.
Thank you

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6

I’m sorry, I do not speak that language. :-/

7

Sorry, I do’t speak english and use an translator. :blush:
I copied the wrong text.

I edit my posting above, so now you can read :wink:

8

In my son’s encrypted mails I see the “has attachment” flag if it is a jpg. With pdf or csv and txt attachments I see nothing.

Aha. It can also depend what the message structure is, but you cannot
see it without decrypting the content, which is not easy from the
command line.

There had been done some changes in this area not long time ago. The
current Evolution 3.56.1 has those changes for sure. What is your
version, please?

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See Post Nr. 2

Sorry!
It is Evolution 3.56.1 with Artix Linux (based on Arch)

10

I see, you already provided the information. I do not have it in the
mails for some reason. Anyway, I’m sorry, my fault.

You are at the latest version, thus you have all the current fixes.
That’s good.