On Mon, Dec 16 2013, David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch> wrote:
> could someone help:
>
> when I open an email, it is automatically displayed as 'text/plain'. If
> this mail has however CID attachments (pictures), they are not in this
> view displayed by default. I have to manually switch to 'text/html' to
> see those embedded pictures.
>
> I'd like to display mail by default as 'text/html'. How can I tell
> emacs notmuch to do so?

Hi, David.  It's not exactly what you're looking for, but the
notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts emacs configuration option
can be used to always display both parts by default.

jamie.