Re: GNus 5.9.0 tries opening HTML, but text/plain preferred

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Oct 18 2006, Jerry Sievers wrote:

> This is GNus 5.9.0 on Fedora-4.
[...]
> Gnus manual refers to "The EMacs MIME Manual" for more info on how
> Gnus might handle automatic opening of MIME parts.
>
> I dont' find that manual here.

(info "(emacs-mime)Top"); <== Press C-x C-e here!

If this doesn't bring you to the following node, your installation is
broken or Fedora's Emacs or Gnus package is broken.

,----[ (info "(emacs-mime)Top") ]
| Emacs MIME
| **********
| 
| This manual documents the libraries used to compose and display MIME
| messages.
`----

> Question; how would I tell Gnus to choose text/plain over text/html
> when doing inline rendering of message content?

FAQ:

,----[ (info "(gnus)[4.6]") | http://my.gnus.org/FAQ ]
| Question 4.6
| ............
| 
| I'd like Gnus NOT to render HTML-mails but show me the text part if
| it's available. How to do it?
| 
| Answer
| ......
| 
| Say
| 
|      (eval-after-load "mm-decode"
|       '(progn
|            (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/html")
|            (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/richtext")))
|    in ~/.gnus.el. If you don't want HTML rendered, even if there's no
| text alternative add
| 
|      (setq mm-automatic-display (remove "text/html" mm-automatic-display))
|    too.
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I'm not sure if it works for the ancient Gnus 5.9, though.

> PS: Also curious that "customize group, Gnus MIME is empty of anything
> configureable?

Hm, yes.  This customize group seems to be bogus (also in the current
version).

Bye, Reiner.
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