HTML not formatted

HTML not formatted

[Steinar Bang]

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This HTML message for some reason wasn't formatted by w3.el, before it 
was displayed, but instead displayed as the raw HTML tags.  I have a
setting of 
	(setq mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/richtext"))

However, this setting didn't stop a spam message from displaying as
(incredibly ugly) formatted HTML yesterday.

The offending message is attached.  Can anyone tell why this message
wasn't formatted before it was displayed?


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From: admin@finn.no
To: steinar@bang.priv.no
Subject: Ditt FINN passord
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:26:10 +0200 (MET DST)
Message-ID: <200003281126.NAA23716@finn.no>

Re: HTML not formatted

[William M. Perry]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> This HTML message for some reason wasn't formatted by w3.el, before it 
> was displayed, but instead displayed as the raw HTML tags.  I have a
> setting of 
> 	(setq mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html"
> "text/richtext"))
> 
> However, this setting didn't stop a spam message from displaying as
> (incredibly ugly) formatted HTML yesterday.
> 
> The offending message is attached.  Can anyone tell why this message
> wasn't formatted before it was displayed?

Because it explicitly says it is text/plain?

Message-ID: <200003281126.NAA23716@finn.no>
From: admin@finn.no
To: steinar@bang.priv.no
Subject: Ditt FINN passord
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 03:26:10 -0800
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

-bp

Re: HTML not formatted

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry):

> Because it explicitly says it is text/plain?

> Message-ID: <200003281126.NAA23716@finn.no>
> From: admin@finn.no
> To: steinar@bang.priv.no
> Subject: Ditt FINN passord
> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 03:26:10 -0800
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> 	charset="windows-1252"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Truly weird.  When I look at the headers using C-u g, I get this:

From: admin@finn.no
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:26:10 +0200 (MET DST)
X-Gnus-Mail-Source: file:/var/spool/mail/sb
Message-Id: <200003281126.NAA23716@finn.no>
Content-type: text/html
Subject: Ditt FINN passord
Errorsto: bounce@finn.no
Replyto: admin@finn.no
To: steinar@bang.priv.no

CT text/html, no charset, and no encoding.

But the "From:" header is in the middle of a series of Received:
headers.  Maybe that is part of the problem?

Re: HTML not formatted

[Kai Großjohann]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> The offending message is attached.  Can anyone tell why this message
> wasn't formatted before it was displayed?

It is missing a Mime-Version header.

kai
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~/.signature: No such file or directory

Re: HTML not formatted

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann):

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>> The offending message is attached.  Can anyone tell why this message
>> wasn't formatted before it was displayed?

> It is missing a Mime-Version header.

Ah, yes of course it is.

Thanx!

Re: HTML not formatted

[Jørgen Wahlberg]

[ Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> ]

|  Truly weird.  When I look at the headers using C-u g, I get this:
|  
|  From: admin@finn.no
|  Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:26:10 +0200 (MET DST)
|  X-Gnus-Mail-Source: file:/var/spool/mail/sb
|  Message-Id: <200003281126.NAA23716@finn.no>
|  Content-type: text/html
|  Subject: Ditt FINN passord
|  Errorsto: bounce@finn.no
|  Replyto: admin@finn.no
|  To: steinar@bang.priv.no
|  
|  CT text/html, no charset, and no encoding.
|  
|  But the "From:" header is in the middle of a series of Received:
|  headers.  Maybe that is part of the problem?

The problem is that there is no MIME-Version header.  Without this,
Gnus does the right thing which is to show you the message as plain
text.

 - jørgen

-- 
Jørgen Wahlberg <jw@nimrod.no>