On Sat 19 Nov 2022, at 17:09, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> [...] >> received from this online seller: [...]
Hi Gene, If I copy the message source you posted above, starting from "Return Path:..." and ending at the end of "------=_Part_88_360748977.1668870493425--" then - paste that into a into a text file - save it as gene.eml - double-click gene.eml ...it opens with Thunderbird in plaintext view and appears to be empty. If I then go to View > Message Body As > Original HTML I can see your original email and their reply, in HTML format. If you haven't already tried View > Message Body As > Original HTML when viewing the "empty" plaintext version of the message, I think it should produce the same result as I got from saving the source to a separate file. If not, I'm afraid I can't suggest any reason for that. > [...] javamail is base64'ing all of the html composed reply to my query. But > because t-bird is broken and not re-entrant as it should be, I'm not seeing > it. It's sometimes necessary to "base64" messages from web-based wrappers to avoid bugs in header/message formatting. I've had this experience with PHPMailer. But the failure of "re-entrance" is because one of the blank lines in the text/plain multipart section of the raw message is interpreted as content, and Tb is displaying it (and more). If I click on the "blank" plaintext version's window in the (would-be) message display area, to give it focus, then select all copy paste into a text editor ...two line breaks are pasted. I'm not convinced *two* line breaks should be pasted, but there we are. I use MATE DE and the Caja file manager. Tb is my default email client. Evolution offers to import the message from mbox format when I: - right-click gene.eml - Open with... > other application > Evolution Mail and Calendar ...and it shows a preview of the HTML version immediately. I'm not sure this is a Tb bug, just perhaps a "purist" way of doing things which avoids "knowing what the user really wants", which (more generally) seems liable to unintended consequences. > Or, is there some option I can set that will enable its display. Much as I seem to recall one, I can't find a way to make Tb display HTML by default if it exists. This rather old forum post suggests that's the way things are, or at least were: "'View' > 'Message Body As' > 'Original HTML' is the setting to display received emails in HTML format" https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1113744 The reply there refers to a Tb extension "Allow HTML Temp" https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/allow-html-temp/?src=cb-dl-mostpopular?src=cb-dl-mostpopular but from the description, I'm not sure if this does quite what you want. Best wishes, Gareth
