Re: [VM] automatic display of mime messages

[Uday Reddy]

address@hidden writes:

> I've read & read the vm info pages but I still can't get automatic display
> of mine encoded messages to work. Please could someone point out out what
> I'm doing wrong?

It is a good idea *not* to customize variables unless you really need to.
All the settings you have listed below are either the defaults or they are
covered by defaults.  So, they don't achieve anything.

> My vm mine settings:
> 
> (setq vm-auto-decode-mime-messages t)
> (setq vm-mime-decode-for-preview t)
> (setq vm-mime-auto-displayed-content-types t)
> (setq vm-mime-internal-content-types t)

What you seem to want is to use an *external* viewer for HTML.  VM will try
to display it internally if at all possible.  The method being used to
display it can be seen in the value of `vm-mime-text/html-handler'.  This is
automatically set by VM when it starts up, based on what is available in
your environment.  It is likely that this method is breaking and, so, you
are getting a button instead of an internal display.  You can look at the
*Messages* buffer to see if any error messages have been generated.

To override this automatic function, you can set the variable
`vm-mime-text/html-handler' to nil in your .vm file.

Or you can also exclude HTML from being viewed internally by setting

(setq vm-mime-internal-content-type-exceptions '("text/html"))

Cheers,
Uday