Steven D'Aprano posted on Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:34:44 +1100 as excerpted:
There's no good excuse for running multiple text-like attachments
together in the body pane as if they were all part of one document,
particularly when those attachments are only nominally text like HTML.
I will agree with that. It has long disturbed me that, for instance,
plain-text file attachments (not even html altho it happens with it too)
get run together with each other and with the main message, without so
much as a linefeed in at least some cases.
In my perfect pan, they'd all still appear in the body pane, but there'd
be not only a line feed, but at least two line feeds with a visually
distinctive separator of some sort between them, and thus, between the
separate parts. I've only not complained about it because the topic
never came up, and on its own it didn't rise to enough of an irritation
factor, at least for me, to bring it up. But now that you've brought it
up...
Heinrich? Would this be a lot of terribly twisted code? I don't think
it /should/ be, but then it is of course easy for /me/ to say that, as
I'm not the one implementing, and I recognize that. It would appear to
cure an at least minor irritant for both Steve and me, at minimum, and I'm
guessing for many others, as well. (Which is to say... TIA, since you
seem to have a way of implementing such things almost before I'm sure my
request has posted! Thanks for that, too! =:^)