html message with attachment is not displayed

html message with attachment is not displayed

[Uwe Brauer]

Hi

From time to time I receive message, perfectly displayed in thunderbird,
but in gnus I only see:
,----
| 
| From: Joe Doe
| Subject: Algunos videos y diapositivas actualizadas
| To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
| Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:07:26 +0200 (4 minutes, 45 seconds ago)
| Attachments: [3. application/octet-stream]... [5. application/pdf]... [7. text/plain]...
| 
| [3. application/octet-stream]...
| 
| [5. application/pdf]...
`----


Which is  completely useless.

I tried the setting 
  (setq gnus-mime-display-multipart-alternative-as-mixed nil) 
  (setq  mm-discouraged-alternatives     nil)


Or 

  (setq  mm-discouraged-alternatives      '("text/html"  "multipart/related" "multipart/alternative")) ; quotes ok
  (setq gnus-mime-display-multipart-alternative-as-mixed nil) ; 

None helped.

What is wrong here?

Help, message I cannot read are useless.

Thanks 

Uwe Brauer 

Re: html message with attachment is not displayed

[Eric S Fraga]

On Monday, 30 Mar 2020 at 09:22, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> From time to time I receive message, perfectly displayed in thunderbird,
> but in gnus I only see:
> ,----
> | 
> | From: Joe Doe
> | Subject: Algunos videos y diapositivas actualizadas
> | To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> | Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:07:26 +0200 (4 minutes, 45 seconds ago)
> | Attachments: [3. application/octet-stream]... [5. application/pdf]... [7. text/plain]...
> | 
> | [3. application/octet-stream]...
> | 
> | [5. application/pdf]...
> `----

The problem is likely that the sender (or sender's MUA) did not specify
a proper mime type for the 3rd component.  You could tab to it and type
t to select the type of application/attachment.  gnus should be able to
display it then.

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.6 on Debian bullseye/sid

Re: html message with attachment is not displayed

[Uwe Brauer]

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>>> "ESF" == Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Monday, 30 Mar 2020 at 09:22, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> From time to time I receive message, perfectly displayed in thunderbird,
>> but in gnus I only see:
>> ,----
>> | 
>> | From: Joe Doe
>> | Subject: Algunos videos y diapositivas actualizadas
>> | To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
>> | Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:07:26 +0200 (4 minutes, 45 seconds ago)
>> | Attachments: [3. application/octet-stream]... [5. application/pdf]... [7. text/plain]...
>> | 
>> | [3. application/octet-stream]...
>> | 
>> | [5. application/pdf]...
>> `----

> The problem is likely that the sender (or sender's MUA) did not specify
> a proper mime type for the 3rd component.  You could tab to it and type
> t to select the type of application/attachment.  gnus should be able to
> display it then.

That was very useful, thank you.

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