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Re: [Nmh-workers] semantics of mhshow -type and -part
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David Levine |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] semantics of mhshow -type and -part |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:16:03 -0500 |
Paul F. wrote:
> david wrote:
> > Paul F. wrote:
> >
> > > as an aside, i actually think "the sender's ranking" is a
> > > highly overrated, and possibly even obsolete concept these
> > > days, RFCs notwithstanding.
> >
> > I'm not sure about that. My phone seems to handle it
> > (multipart/alternative) nicely.
>
> and nmh does (or could) too, right now, if we were all willing to
> hand html mail to our browsers for display. but most of would
> prefer to see text/plain over text/html,
mhn.defaults, by default, prefers text/html over text/plain.
You know that you can override that, right?
> or perhaps even choose which based on sender.
That's messier with mhn.defaults and/or the profile, but still
doable.
> i'd like to see that made easier than it is
> now, because while its nice to know what the "sender" would prefer
> me to look at, that preference can be difficult for me to
> accomodate.
>
> >
> > On the other hand, I have been getting emails with text/html and
> > text/plain in a multipart/related. But those two text parts
> > appear to be just different representations of the same content,
> > so they really should be in a multipart/alternative. I had been
> > thinking that these are mistakes. But now I wonder if that's the
> > sender's way of punting the choice to the recipient.
>
> does it matter? again, this suggests that we need better mechanisms
> for choosing among alternative mime parts in ways that are somewhat
> independent of the sender's supposed preference.
In this case, the sender isn't indicating a preference. So mhshow
shows all the alternatives. I find that annoying, but at least
it's easy to avoid.
David
[Nmh-workers] overriding multipart/alternative ordering, Paul Fox, 2015/02/04
Re: [Nmh-workers] semantics of mhshow -type and -part, David Levine, 2015/02/02