Re: [Evolution] Suggestions on HTML mail/ML-reading

[Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com>]

On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 17:34 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 23:03 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > My settings are 'Prefer plain' as well, on 2.26. My issue is that some
> > of the mail I'm receiving doesn't respond well, for example HTML-only
> > mail that DOES render okay in plain text gets the HTML shown, while some
> > mail which doesn't make sense in text (for example, release
> > announcements from sony.com for new DVDs/movies) shows in PLAIN rather
> > than HTML, simply because the incoming mails have both.
>
> I'm quite unsure whether I follow fully. It seems that we understand
> each other that there are (for us) three types of emails:
> a) containing only plain text part
> b) containing only HTML text part
> c) containing both plain and HTML part in a multipart/alternative part

Yes, precisely. (snips off explanation)
> > ...
> >  So, for example, I may prefer
> > plain text, and only see the HTML when I want to (loading up
> > epiphany/firefox just to read an email seems a bit OTT to me though).
>
> see below
>
> > Or, I may prefer HTML and only want plain text when I have misbehaving
> > HTML which can't be read (white text on white background, for example,
> > since I'm using a dark theme).
> >
> > 'Prefer Plain' addresses the first use-case, but is a bit of a
> > work-around, using an external web browser.

> With the "Prefer plain" set I'm not forced to open the HTML part in the
> browser, I can choose "View Inline" or simply click the button beside
> the arrow at the bottom of the message, and the part will be expanded
> inline, in the message.

Thank you! I was precisely searching for something like 'show inline',
can't believe I'd missed it till now.

> > Its of no help in the
> > second, that is, if the default is 'Show HTML if present', there is no
> > way to 'show this particular message as plain text'.
>
> I believe the "Prefer Plain" is what you want, maybe you only missed the
> possibility of inline showing?
>
> Oops, I'm sorry for longer mail.
>       Bye,
>       Milan

Still have a (admittedly smaller) issue with the fact that its not
possible to have the following situation:-

DEfAULT: show HTML if present (meaning both types b and c from above)
RUN-TIME: show plain-text for some individual mails (of type c,
obviously) which do not render properly
WISH-LIST: convert mails of type b to plain text, again on demand from
the user (ie. something like 'inline showing' but the reverse)