Re: Email with multiple parts
  By: deon to Digital Man on Wed Jun 07 2023 05:51 pm

 > Hey DM,
 >
 > I received an email today with multiple parts:
 >
 > $ grep Next msg_5939.txt
 >      boundary="----=_NextPart_000_008C_01D998A5.F0960690"
 >  ------=_NextPart_000_008C_01D998A5.F0960690
 >         boundary="----=_NextPart_001_008D_01D998A5.F0960690"
 >  ------=_NextPart_001_008D_01D998A5.F0960690
 >  ------=_NextPart_001_008D_01D998A5.F0960690
 >  ------=_NextPart_001_008D_01D998A5.F0960690--
 >  ------=_NextPart_000_008C_01D998A5.F0960690
 >  ------=_NextPart_000_008C_01D998A5.F0960690--
 >
 > but Email -> Read was only showing me the first "001_008D" part of the
 > message. I wasnt aware that there were other parts unless I downloaded the
 > message, ie List -> Select Message -> Download.

Typically there's only one plain-text part (useful for reading in a terminal) per message. But if you want to see all parts, enabling Raw I/O mode (Ctrl-Z) will do that.

 > Even smbutil -rxxx didnt show the full message.

'-rxxx' doesn't ring a bell. "smbutil r[xxx] -r" (where [xxx] is the message number) would display the raw (non MIME-decoded message body).

 > Should it have shown or otherwise enabled me to download the other parts?

I suppose it (msglist.js?) could display an indicator that there are non-visible parts. Some parts (e.g. html, inline images) just aren't very useful to be shown to a terminal user.

 > This makes email via the BBS unreliable if attachments or other parts of the
 > message are not accessible.
 >
 > In case you need it:
 > _NextPart_000_008C_01D998A5.F0960690 - Content-Type: multipart/alternative
 > _NextPart_001_008D_01D998A5.F0960690 - Content-Type: text/plain;
 > _NextPart_001_008D_01D998A5.F0960690 - Content-Type: text/html
 > _NextPart_000_008C_01D998A5.F0960690 - Content-Type: text/plain

I would expect only the first text/plain part to be pulled from the message body by default.
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                                            digital man (rob)

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