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? -- Arthur S. Alexion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Arthur S. Alexion LLC _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
