Re: Displaying mails with Content-Type: text/html

[Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com>]

Raymond Scholz <rscholz@tzi.de> writes:
> I got two HTML mails (no multipart, SPAM of course). The first
> displays fine, the second doesn't and appears as HTML source. Looking
> at the MIME headers, I can't figure what causes this behaviour. 

The problem with the message you forwarded is that it contains no
MIME-Version header in the first place.  Gnus correctly declines to
display as MIME a message which does not claim to be MIME in the first
place.

"Content-Type: text/html" is necessary but not sufficient.
"MIME-Version: 1.0" is also needed.

> Subject: Earn 100K Plus a year! -aixnyg
> Reply-To: datsmyne008@yahoo.com
> From: wampun@necs.postmaster.co.uk
> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:58:23 -0500
> X-Gnus-Mail-Source: file:/var/spool/mail/rscholz
> Message-Id: <vlmmixw.wjsmwc@jvxrjgu.jarh66@nexxmail.com>
> To: @informatik.uni-bremen.de@vhost2.systemv.com
> Content-Type: text/html;
> 	charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
> X-UIDL: ca629e293b81b3df6b0f77400e797bb9
> Lines: 73
> Xref: mde1.home mail.spam:16
> X-Gnus-Article-Number: 16   Tue Jan 18 14:53:58 2000

As it happens, Netscrape's mail interface is deranged enough that it
will intuit MIMEness in the face of Content-Type alone.  But this is
true derangement, and jwz even admitted as much a couple years ago
when discussing such matters in news.software.readers.