Re: Gnus displaying MIME automatically

[Alex Schroeder <kensanata@yahoo.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

>> gnus-article-mime-match-handle-function's value is 
>>   undisplayed-alternative
>> gnus-article-mime-part-function's value is nil
>> gnus-buttonized-mime-types's value is nil
>> gnus-display-mime-function's value is gnus-display-mime
>> gnus-ignored-mime-types's value is nil
>> gnus-mime-multipart-functions's value is nil
>> gnus-unbuttonized-mime-types's value is (".*/.*")
>> 
>> Nothing unusual there, right?
>> 
>> >From *Messages*:
>> 
>> Viewing with /usr/bin/w3m -T text/html '%s'
>> Displaying /usr/bin/w3m -T text/html '/tmp/emm.2592im/mm.259Dts'...
>
> You need to frob `mm-automatic-display' to not include text/html, I
> think.
>
>>     Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>>              boundary="====_ABC0987654321DEF_===="
>
> Or `mm-discouraged-alternatives'.  But...
>
>>     Content-Type: audio/x-wav;
>>              name="stuff.MP3.pif"
>
> ...perhaps a MP3 file is even worse than HTML. (Also, it looks like a
> worm instead of a real MP3 file.)

Yes, I thought so, too.  So much the worse, haha.  But I am not sure
which part actually started the xterm window -- perhaps you are right
and it was the text/html part, not the audio/x-wav part which (I hope)
would have been a button.

Anyway, I have the following variables set, in addition to the ones
mentioned above:

mm-discouraged-alternatives's value is 
("text/html" "text/richtext")

mm-automatic-display's value is 
("text/plain" "text/enriched" "text/richtext" "text/html"
"text/x-vcard" "image/.*" "message/delivery-status" "multipart/.*"
"message/rfc822" "text/x-patch" "application/pgp-signature"
"application/emacs-lisp" "application/x-pkcs7-signature"
"application/pkcs7-signature" "application/x-pkcs7-mime"
"application/pkcs7-mime")

Does it seem plausible then that I got a mail with no text/plain and
only text/html in it -- thus the HTML is displayed.  And the reason is
that text/html is a discouraged alternative -- but if it is the only
alternative, it will be used.  Correct?  The correct solution would be
to remove text/html from mm-automatic-display.  Then I don't have to
specify text/html as a discouraged alternative anymore -- or do I?  Or
would it make more sense to add text/html to
gnus-buttonized-mime-types?

Anyway, is there any other place but the "MIME Commands" node in the
Gnus manual where such things are explained?

Alex.
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