Re: [Evolution] [Fwd: Pilot: Fatal alert]

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur alexion com>]

On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 22:18, Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> Would be nice to have a config option in general to say always show me
> XXXXXX if available (where XXXXX is a choice of auto, plain/text
> html/text etc). In this case that option doesn't really help unless the
> user says html/text here... Personally, I'd mostly leave this switched
> to plain/text.

I'm not sure whether it's the same, but kmail has an option "show html
in preference to plain text"  which I have assigned a key binding.  I
leave it off (showing plain text) except for the rare instance when I
need to see the html.

> On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 11:11, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > If you take a look at the message source, you'll find that the message
> > is a multipart/alternativewhich means that there are several
> > "alternative" views of the same[1] message body which are listed in
> > reverse preference order (last part is the most preferred, first part is
> > the least preferred).
> >
> > What a mail client is supposed to do is show the *last* part which it is
> > capable of displaying, which is exactly what Evolution is doing.
> >
> > I don't know what can be done as obviously it would not be good to show
> > the user all versions of the body (imagine reading multiple copies of
> > the same message all in a row - we'd probably get thousands of bug
> > reports about a bug in evolution that showed multiple copies of the same
> > message).
> >
> > [1] obviously, the content *does* differ. usually you'll have 1 version
> > in text/html format and one in text/plain (and possibly one in
> > text/richtext or text/enriched or something).
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 20:43, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > > The attached message shows up blank in my copy of Evolution 1.2.1.  I
> > > get a lot of messages from that particular list which show up blank in
> > > evolution, but are readable in kmail.  Any ideas?
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