Re: funny multipart/related not displaying correctly

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> The message attached below isn't displayed well by Gnus.  I suspect
> that it is incorrect MIME.  Unfortunately, I'm getting a lot of
> messages like this from a certain source who can't change the software
> which generates them.  So I'm wondering:  are they in fact incorrect
> MIME, and is there a way to get Gnus to detect this and display them
> properly automatically?
> 
> The messages consist of a multipart/related with
> type="multipart/alternative" and two sub-parts.  The first subpart
> (part 1) is a multipart/alternative (which is correct) and the second
> (part 2) is an image (replaced below by a text/plain part).  The
> enclosing multipart/related shouldn't be an alternative; I want to see
> one of the first two parts and the last part.  If I hit `K m', Gnus
> somehow can tell this is what I want and fixes the message.  I'd like
> this to happen automatically.

> By the way, before being fixed, `K b' only shows one button, which
> corresponds to part 1, the alternative.  But I never see part 2.  
> `C-u K b' fixes this, but shouldn't I see an alternative to part 1
> with `K b'?
> 
> `C-d' on the message shows the correct heirarchy of parts.

gnus-mime-display-multipart-as-mixed is the variable, but maybe you
don't want multipart/alternative displayed as mixed. So, I just added
gnus-mime-display-multipart-related-as-mixed and
gnus-mime-display-multipart-alternative-as-mixed.

ShengHuo