GNus 5.9.0 tries opening HTML, but text/plain preferred

GNus 5.9.0 tries opening HTML, but text/plain preferred

[Jerry Sievers]

Hello, I'm a long time GNuser but confess to having not been deep into
the docs for a while. 

This is GNus 5.9.0 on Fedora-4.

Anyway, I see that my Gnus is opening the HTML part of messages that
have alternative content types, and in cases where this is totally
bogus MS Outlook HTML, the rendering fails and shows up as raw
markup. 

Gnus manual refers to "The EMacs MIME Manual" for more info on how
Gnus might handle automatic opening of MIME parts.

I dont' find that manual here.

Question; how would I tell Gnus to choose text/plain over text/html
when doing inline rendering of message content?

Thanks

PS: Also curious that "customize group, Gnus MIME is empty of anything
configureable?

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Re: GNus 5.9.0 tries opening HTML, but text/plain preferred

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Oct 18 2006, Jerry Sievers wrote:

> This is GNus 5.9.0 on Fedora-4.
[...]
> Gnus manual refers to "The EMacs MIME Manual" for more info on how
> Gnus might handle automatic opening of MIME parts.
>
> I dont' find that manual here.

(info "(emacs-mime)Top"); <== Press C-x C-e here!

If this doesn't bring you to the following node, your installation is
broken or Fedora's Emacs or Gnus package is broken.

,----[ (info "(emacs-mime)Top") ]
| Emacs MIME
| **********
| 
| This manual documents the libraries used to compose and display MIME
| messages.
`----

> Question; how would I tell Gnus to choose text/plain over text/html
> when doing inline rendering of message content?

FAQ:

,----[ (info "(gnus)[4.6]") | http://my.gnus.org/FAQ ]
| Question 4.6
| ............
| 
| I'd like Gnus NOT to render HTML-mails but show me the text part if
| it's available. How to do it?
| 
| Answer
| ......
| 
| Say
| 
|      (eval-after-load "mm-decode"
|       '(progn
|            (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/html")
|            (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/richtext")))
|    in ~/.gnus.el. If you don't want HTML rendered, even if there's no
| text alternative add
| 
|      (setq mm-automatic-display (remove "text/html" mm-automatic-display))
|    too.
`----

I'm not sure if it works for the ancient Gnus 5.9, though.

> PS: Also curious that "customize group, Gnus MIME is empty of anything
> configureable?

Hm, yes.  This customize group seems to be bogus (also in the current
version).

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: GNus 5.9.0 tries opening HTML, but text/plain preferred

[Ivan Boldyrev]

On 9632 day of my life Jerry Sievers wrote:
> Anyway, I see that my Gnus is opening the HTML part of messages that
> have alternative content types, and in cases where this is totally
> bogus MS Outlook HTML, the rendering fails and shows up as raw
> markup. 

Install w3m (a text browser) and emacs-w3m.  Then
(setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m)

Or set the variable to other value that uses different browser you have.

> Question; how would I tell Gnus to choose text/plain over text/html
> when doing inline rendering of message content?

(setq mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html"))

You can also M-x customize-variable these two variables.

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