Re: Gnus wants to save mime part instead of displaying message

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Jul 28 2006, Elias Oltmanns wrote:

> Elias Oltmanns <oltmanns@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
[...]
>> The mail appears to be a multipart alternative message with one
>> text/plain and text/html part respectively.  Additionally, there is
>> an image/jpg part.
>
> Just for the record: I didn't realise that the image/jpg part was
> actually considered the most favourable option in the
> multipart/alternative section and that gnus would consequently try to
> display it 

JFTR, the most favorable part is specified by the order of the MIME
parts of the message, not by Gnus.  But of course Gnus only has an
option to override this order using `mm-discouraged-alternatives'...

> and, as thats impossible on the text console, would fall back to
> saving to disk. Adding "image/.*" to my mm-discouraged-alternatives
> solved the problem.

Bye, Reiner.
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