bug#18792: multipart/related with "cid:" image not shown

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> [ This also affects trunk, and has probably been going on for a while
>   now.  ]
>
> I regularly receive emails that contain "a tiny bit of HTML text around
> a picture".  Often these have the following MIME structure:
>
>     multipart/related
>       multipart/alternative
>         text/plain
>         text/html
>       image/jpeg
>
> where the HTML refers to the image via a "cid:" URL.
>
> Here's the problem: Gnus seems to only show me the first element of the
> multipart/related and does not let me get access to the image.
>
> More specifically, I get a display such as:
>
>    From: "Toto" <toto@gnu.ca>
>    Subject: blabla
>    To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>    Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:59:18 +0000 (47 minutes, 13 seconds ago)
>
>    1.  (*) text/plain          ( ) text/html           
>
>    Mira esto
>    [cid:ED58E6891D72E141A6C22D4BAFEF436F@gnu.ca]

I haven't used "buttonised" article display in yonks, but I think cid:
basically works for me in the articles (I mean spam) I see, and they are
usually multipart/alternative wrapped in multipart/related, I seem to
remember from the last time I looked at it.

Could you forward a complete message that displays the issue?

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