[imp] HTML Mail

Craig M. Dupree cdupree@csr.utexas.edu
Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:32:02 -0500 (CDT) 

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Rich Lafferty wrote:

> IMP will either render the HTML, or display an HTML part as an
> attachment -- it should, AFAIK, never just display source. Do you have
> IMP configured to show HTML parts inline?

I have whatever the default is, since I've only modified how IMP displays
greetings, and such.

> The problem you describe makes me think that there's a wrong MIME type
> somewhere, either on the original message or from the server IMP's
> running on. Can you take a look at the message source and note the
> MIME type for the part that's in HTML?

Here's an example; it does have a html mime type listed.

Subject: No-Kill Handbill No: 644
X-Mailer: YourMailinglistProvider.com
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 7074
X-Status:
X-Keywords:
X-UID: 169

<HTML><BODY><BR>

<FONT COLOR="151D8D"><H1>THE NO-KILL HANDBILL</H1>ISSUE NO. 644, AUGUST 6,
2001<BR><BR>

Working toward a no-kill millennium - a thousand years without killing our
friends.<BR>

...

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