error on multipart email in 8.1.592

[Robert Marshall]

I have

(setq vm-mime-alternative-select-method '(favorite "text/html"))

and when I view a multipart email I get:

Inline text/html by auto-select display failed: (void-function
vm-mime-display-internal-auto-select-text/html)

and the raw html is displayed

May get around to digging deeper but putting it here too!

Robert
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[Uday S Reddy]

Robert Marshall wrote:

> I have
>
> (setq vm-mime-alternative-select-method '(favorite "text/html"))

Do you use w3 package or something else to display text/html internally?
(I myself don't. I set my method to 'best-internal.)

> and when I view a multipart email I get:
>
> Inline text/html by auto-select display failed: (void-function
> vm-mime-display-internal-auto-select-text/html)

There is a variable called vm-mime-text/html-handler, which is set to
auto-select by default. When it is auto-select, vm is supposed to set
it to whatever is appropriate to your system. I presume that it is not
happening.

A work-around is to set the variable to whatever is appropriate.
According to customize, the valid values are nil, 'emacs-w3m, 'emacs-w3,
'w3m and 'lynx.

If somebody can test out all these settings and share their experience
here, that would be useful.

Cheers,
Uday