[imp] part of html-body not displayed

Thu Jan 10 09:33:20 UTC 2008

Hello Philip Steeman,

you wrote:
> 1) there exists a mailclient who makes 2 <html> parts (don't know wich 
> one it is)

Normally, the mail client is noted in the e-mail headers (sub "User-Agent:").

> 2) view HTML content in a separate window with imp, accepts 2 <html> 
> parts (normal mail viewing doesn't)

This is not owed to Imp, but rather to the browser you are using
to view the message. If you ask Imp to show the HTML content in
a separate window, it simply opens a new window and directs there
the unmodified HTML source.

Most browsers try to display as much as possible from an HTML
source, tacitly mending the syntactic errors therein, as far
as possible.

Still, a WWW page containing two HTML sources (as you have
described in your original post) is blatantly non-standard,
and you cannot rely on having it displayed in a meaningful
manner. So you should ask the sender to use a standard-
conforming mail client.

Best wishes,
   Otto Stolz