puzzled with CIDs in HTML email

[David Belohrad]

Dear All,

I'm really puzzled with CIDS. If you could see the attachment [1]. This
is an email I usually get. It comes with embedded picture. Now when I use
'w' shortcut to save the attachments, all goes well and emacs actually
saves the png file. When I open it in the emacs buffer, I can see
without any troubles the picture.

If however I click on blue-underlined link to see the picture, iceweasel
(Debian codename for firefox) opens, and claims 'iceweasel doesn't know
how to open this address, because the protocol (CID) isn't associated
with any program'.

If I click on green-like 'cid:' link, a new email buffer opens with 'To' equal to
cid link [2].

In both cases however there is no way how I can display the picture in
emacs/other renderer unless I save it first and then display it.

This has to be some kind of regression, as in the past I had like 50%
probability [3], that CID link will correctly display itself inside the
email buffer itself. However nowadays none of the links actually
displays and all of them finish with this 'double-link'.


Does anyone of you have an idea what could be wrong here? I am using
notmuch _remotely_ in emacs23.2. When showing the message in raw
format on the console, I
clearly see all the MIME parts data in the fetched email.

Any help kindly appreciated (as it is quite annoying :)


david


[1] http://belohrad.web.cern.ch/belohrad/puzzledcids.png

[2] http://belohrad.web.cern.ch/belohrad/puzzledcids1.png

[3] http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2012/012493.html