From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9913 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Why won't gnus display certain messages Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:10:43 +0900 Message-ID: <87k5onc5m4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194916271 6556 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2007 01:11:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: reader@newsguy.com To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 13 02:11:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IrkJ5-00068l-Di for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:11:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IrkIs-0003dW-SW for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:10:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IrkIr-0003dR-Af for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:10:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IrkIn-0003dF-QL for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:10:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IrkIn-0003dC-M8 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:10:53 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp02.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.72]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IrkIj-00008v-B5; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:10:49 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-100-114.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.100.114] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1IrkIf-0005dy-Dw; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:10:45 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F3D1D2FF6; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:10:43 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (reader@newsguy.com's message of "Mon\, 12 Nov 2007 12\:50\:00 -0600") Original-Lines: 27 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:9913 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65637 Archived-At: reader@newsguy.com writes: > In gnus there actually is nothing displayed for body. But viewing the > message with `C-u g' shows these mail and mime headers. I've chopped > out or mangled some headers and all but two lines of what gnus has > displayed for the body. Er, is this a trick question? You explicitly seem to have told Gnus to not display html by default, and to always prefer text to html if a message has both alternatives: (setq mm-automatic-display (remove "text/html" mm-automatic-display) mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/richtext")) (setq mm-text-html-renderer (quote w3m)) Your example message has an _empty_ "text" alternative, along with a non-empty "html" alternative, and Gnus is displaying the (empty) text alternative (because you told it to with the above settings). The other MUA you tried displayed the (non-empty) html alternative. The real problem of course is that the software that sent the message screwed up big-time by including an unusable text alternative. -miles -- If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. [George Carlin]