Post by BorisDoes emClient 'do' inline jpgs?
By "inline" I'm assuming you mean will it show attachments in the body
of a message. Whether an attachment is inline or attached depends on
how the sender affixed the object. The disposition says how to behave.
In the MIME part containing the attachment is a disposition argument.
It can be:
disposition=attach
disposition=inline
Note that the disposition attribute is merely a suggestion to the client
in how to render a message. The client does not have to obey. For
e-mails that I get and viewed in eM Client, attachments can be inline
(usually images inserted by the sender, and with disposition=inline) or
attached (disposition=attach).
https://help.perforce.com/sourcepro/11/html/protocolsug/10-1.html
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt
Oops, guess that's the Content-Disposition header in the MIME headers,
as in Content-Disposition: attach, or Content-Disposition: attach. All
text is sent as plain text. HTML is text with tags. Binaries get
converted to long text strings in MIME parts. Those damn Word-polluted
e-mails have tons of headers and directives specific only to Word in
facilitating how to render a message, but that means you need to use a
client that supports Word (which, of course, are the Microsoft clients).
Other clients will ignore the unknown headers and directives, so any
Word specific rendering operators are ignored. Email is always all
text, because ASCII is what the SMTP protocol was designed to handle
hence why MIME came along to allow binary-to-text encoding to carry
non-text content.
If the header is absent, the client can decide however it wants to
present the MIME part. It's an optional header. That means the sender
somehow managed to get their client to not add the header. Since the
location is unknown, my guess is the client will show the attachment as
attached to the message instead in the message.
I looked at some e-mails that I've received that had attachments. Those
with "Content-Disposition: inline" showed the images where the MIME
block was present within the body of the message.
For inline, the client should show that attachment in the body. For
attach, the client will have its own means of indicating there is an
attachment, like a list of attachments in a header row in the preview
pane, or a list of attachments shown at the end of the body of the
message. EM Client shows attach disposition attachments in 2 ways. The
default is to show an Attachments column in the header list pane wherein
is shown a paperclip icon, and in the preview pane below the default
headers (Subject, From, To) as both the paperclip icon, and as a list of
attachments with each inside a hollow bubble just to help delineate the
name of the attachment.
To see what eM Client would do with a MIME part holding an attachment
that is missing the optional Content-Disposition header, I'd have to do
a raw source search through all my e-mails trying to find e-mails with
MIME parts missing that header. Nah, not worth my time. I'm sure eM
Client would show undeclared attachments as a list of attachments. It
wouldn't know where in the body to insert.
Post by BorisI did try BlueMail on my Android phone, but it was real buggy.
Downloads were sloooooooow. Some emails never showed up. Also seemed
like there were too many setting options that didn't add much to it's
functionality, but it looked pretty on my phone.
BlueMail is one of those UWP offerings that needs more work. Alas,
that's true of many UWP apps, including even eM Client.
Editions of software written as UWP apps often don't match the feature
set of the Win32 editions. Alas, nowadays there are only the mobile app
versions, and no dev into a Win32 or Linux version. Often a Win32
program may get an app version, but not the other way around. Another
problem is the dev group writing the apps are not those that wrote the
legacy versions for desktops, so the app devs are still learning and
don't have the same depth of expertise (they've not had as much time).
Em Client also has a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app, but, I think,
it was also slow, but not bad. However, there is no easy way to add it
as a startup program to get it to load when you log into your Windows
account. It's possible, but you have to find the AppID for the program,
and create the shortcut yourself in your Startup folder, or add as a
login event in Task Scheduler. There is no option within the Em Client
app to have it load on startup (well, on login). I stayed with the
Win32 edition (program) of eM Client.
https://forum.emclient.com/t/em-client-program-versus-em-client-app-windows-10-any-difference/61572/4
After trying their UWP app on Windows, I didn't bother to try it on my
Android phone. I already using MS Outlook on my Android phone. While
others have reported some problems with it, I have not. Of course,
there are complaints on everything available on any platform.
eM Client UWP app:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/em-client/9NM8S4PVF0N2?hl=en-us&gl=US
eM Client program:
https://www.emclient.com/download
eM CLient Android app:
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=em%20client&c=apps
eM CLient macOS:
https://www.emclient.com/download-mac
eM Client iOS (beta, requires TestFlight app):
https://testflight.apple.com/join/nzXZuIQs
If you can get a Win32 edition of a program, do that instead of the UWP
edition. I never recommend betaware, and I'm sure the Apple iPhone
folks have lots of e-mail client choices. I don't how the eM Client
Android app functions or behaves (already made my choice to use a
different e-mail app on Android).
I'm not saying eM Client is perfect. I don't think perfect software has
ever existed hence the need for updates. While I have MS 365 Pro on my
desktop PC, I haven't yet gone back to using MS Outlook. I had MS
Office before (about 3+ years ago), but decided to stop paying for that
subscriptionware. I switch to alternatives, like LibreOffice, but keep
falling short of features I needed in MS Office/365. I decided to buy
the standalone MS Office Pro Plus 2021 (it was super-cheap at $30, and
legit, through a Gamespot.com seller), but have not had motivation to
migrate back to Outlook (which I used for decades, and became proficient
at using).
The OP said free was preferred, but not mandatory. So, MS 365 is a
choice, or MS Office standalone. Gamespot is having another sale on MS
Office 2021 (standalone, not subscriptionware) for $33.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-office-2021-is-only-30-this-week-pc-and-mac-editions-available/1100-6510571/
$33 dollars until Oct 15.
That's where I got it for $29.99 back in Nov 2021. Still working. Many
other users bought through them, and I've not heard of licensing issues.
Like Walmart, Newegg, and many other e-tailers, they act as a front-end
for other sellers. Gamespot does that, too. The above sale is by
NERDUSED selling through Gamespot. However, you have to catch the
Gamespot Deals to get the low price when the seller has a special sale.
There could be a cheaper place to buy MS Office 2021 Pro Plus, but I
don't care about shaving a few dollers by buying from an unknown. I've
not had to contest a purchase through Gamespot, so I don't how well they
facilitate refunds, returns, or other problems with an order.