display text/html by default

display text/html by default

[David Belohrad]

Dear all,

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?

thanks
.d.

Re: display text/html by default

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

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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.

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Re: display text/html by default

[David Belohrad]

Hi Jamie,

thanks for this tip. It somehow solves the situation :)

.d.


Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> writes:

> 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.

Re: display text/html by default

[Austin Clements]

Quoth Jameson Graef Rollins on Dec 17 at  7:54 am:
> 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.

Alternatively, you could experiment with
notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged.  By default this contains
"text/html", which is why notmuch is hiding the HTML parts.  This
isn't a customizable variable (I'm not sure why not), but you could
try adding

  (setq notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged '())

to your .emacs (or evaluate it using M-: within Emacs) and see if that
helps.