Re: Forcing viewing HTML for certain senders

2015-07-20 Thread mutt
Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Jul2015 13:02, Chris Down ch...@chrisdown.name wrote: I eventually worked this out[0]. I had previously tried using a message-hook to set alternative_order, but that didn't work because I didn't realise that alternative_order *appends*, it doesn't overwrite the

Re: Forcing viewing HTML for certain senders

2015-07-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 20Jul2015 16:11, m...@raf.org m...@raf.org wrote: Cameron Simpson wrote: In particular, I maintain a mutt group htmlers to track specific senders which send useless plain text components. Keeps the condition readable. [...] another approach is to automatically run emails through a filter

Re: Forcing viewing HTML for certain senders

2015-07-17 Thread Chris Down
Cameron Simpson writes: In particular, I maintain a mutt group htmlers to track specific senders which send useless plain text components. Keeps the condition readable. That's a great idea, thanks a lot for bringing that up.

Forcing viewing HTML for certain senders

2015-07-16 Thread Chris Down
Is there some way to force viewing HTML for certain senders? I tend to prefer reading plain text over HTML (which I auto_view with w3m), but some senders send stupidly broken e-mails as plain text, and the only reasonable thing to do is view the HTML content instead. For example, some senders

Re: Forcing viewing HTML for certain senders

2015-07-16 Thread Chris Down
I eventually worked this out[0]. I had previously tried using a message-hook to set alternative_order, but that didn't work because I didn't realise that alternative_order *appends*, it doesn't overwrite the existing alternative_order. So, the basic solution is to call unalternative_order

Re: Forcing viewing HTML for certain senders

2015-07-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Jul2015 13:02, Chris Down ch...@chrisdown.name wrote: I eventually worked this out[0]. I had previously tried using a message-hook to set alternative_order, but that didn't work because I didn't realise that alternative_order *appends*, it doesn't overwrite the existing