multipart mail with empty plain part

Christian Anders

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May 23, 2013, 7:19:23 PM5/23/13

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I'm getting mails like this:

I 1 <no description> [multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 8,4K]
I 2 ├─><no description> [text/plain, 7bit, iso-8859-1, 0,1K]
I 3 └─><no description> [text/html, quoted, iso-8859-1, 8,1K]

Is such an email standards compliant? If I open it with mutt I see
an empty mail (my standard is to view the text-part of mail because I
read my mail on a slow machine). Is it possible to configure mutt to
open the html-part if the text/plain part is empty?

thx,

christian

S.H.

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May 24, 2013, 5:18:33 AM5/24/13

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Hello!

I use the following settings for html-related email:

The following is in my muttrc (Check man muttrc for the settings):

auto_view text/html
alternative_order text/plain text/html

And the following in mailcap:

text/html; /usr/bin/w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html -dump; copiousoutput;

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James Wilkinson

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May 24, 2013, 4:50:52 PM5/24/13

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Christian Anders wrote:
> I'm getting mails like this:
>
> I 1 <no description> [multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 8,4K]
> I 2 ├─><no description> [text/plain, 7bit, iso-8859-1, 0,1K]
> I 3 └─><no description> [text/html, quoted, iso-8859-1, 8,1K]
>
>
> Is such an email standards compliant?

Perfectly. It says that there is no useful content in any part.

James.

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Christian Anders

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May 24, 2013, 6:13:37 PM5/24/13

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Roger Bell_West <roger+c...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:

> On 2013-05-23, Christian Anders wrote:
>>Is such an email standards compliant?

> Of course not. See RFC2046 5.1.4, particularly the final paragraph.

thx

>>If I open it with mutt I see
>>an empty mail (my standard is to view the text-part of mail because I
>>read my mail on a slow machine).
>

> Looking on the bright side, chances are it has no useful content
> anyway.

The content is interesting. But it is cumbersome to read it. I have to
switch to the attachment menu and open it from there. Annoying.

Has anybody got a easier route for that?

thx,

christian

Christian Anders

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May 24, 2013, 6:16:37 PM5/24/13

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S.H. <sh_...@riseup.net> wrote:
> Christian Anders <christi...@gmx.net> wrote 23.05.2013:
>> I'm getting mails like this:
>>
>> I 1 <no description> [multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 8,4K]
>> I 2 ├─><no description> [text/plain, 7bit, iso-8859-1, 0,1K]
>> I 3 └─><no description> [text/html, quoted, iso-8859-1, 8,1K]
>>
>>
>> Is such an email standards compliant? If I open it with mutt I see
>> an empty mail (my standard is to view the text-part of mail because I
>> read my mail on a slow machine). Is it possible to configure mutt to
>> open the html-part if the text/plain part is empty?
>
> Hello!
>
> I use the following settings for html-related email:
>
> The following is in my muttrc (Check man muttrc for the settings):
>
> auto_view text/html
> alternative_order text/plain text/html

You tell mutt to open the text/plain if there is one. And then it will
not look at the alternative. And if the text/plain part is empty then I
don't see anything in my regular mailview.

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Christian Anders

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May 27, 2013, 2:27:27 AM5/27/13

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Roger Bell_West <roger+c...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:

> On 2013-05-24, Christian Anders wrote:
>>Has anybody got a easier route for that?
>

> view-attachments (default v), navigate to the spurious text/plain
> part, delete-entry (default d), re-view?

good idea. works. thanks!

christian