GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 219136
HTML version of message is shown always for multipart mail even if plain text body is also included in mail
Last modified: 2005-11-15 02:22:21 UTC
Description of Problem: If incoming mail message is a mime multipart message with both plain text and HTML-versions of same message, Evolution seems to always show HTML-version. There seems to be no way to choose which version is shown. Some people (like me) wants to see plain text version instead of HTML for many reasons. Additionally there could be a setting for incoming mail that allows user to convert all incoming mail to text/plain. MS Outlook has something like this if I remember correctly. Yours, Toni Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Send mail to Evo using client that allows sending message in plain text and HTML simultaneously. (MS Outlook and Netscape for example)
the MIME rfcs say that a client should always choose the most featureful text type that the client supports and use that for display (because it will preserve as much formatting as the email author wanted).
I don't want software making decicions on my behalf. :/ It would not break rfc if Evo had this behaviour user configurable. I think rfc says _should_, not _must_.
Sorry reopening, but I want more opinions about this issue before giving up. :) I still think that evo should have it configurable which way it shows HTML mail; as HTML or plain text. Adding this feature would not break RFC.
this is a duplicate of some bug reported by some debian developer or another. the other guy wrote a patch so I'd mark this as a duplicate of that one but I'm too lazy to look for it. we're still not going to be adding it to CVS though.
This must be the one with the patch: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224149 I also added dependency to that. :)
it's not a dependency, it's a duplicate but whatever
This is a reasonable request for people that wish to prefer plain-text in e-mails they receive. I'm re-opening the bug and marking it a duplicate of the other. I'll review the patch and fix it up.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 224149 ***