[imp] view of html and plaintext email.

[John H. Bennett III]

Quoting "John H. Bennett III" <bennettj at thebennetthome.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having an issue with imp 6.2.0 when receiving html emails.  When  
> I send myself a test email using html, I'm seeing both the plaintext  
> message and the html message.
>
> I have both the plain text and html viewers set to inline true, so  
> I'm sure that's the issue, but if I receive html, I'd prefer to only  
> see the html message.
>
> Under preferences/mail/viewing, I have also set html part for the  
> for messages with alternative representation of a text part, which  
> part should be display setting.
>
> If I set the html driver to inline false, then I see the plain text,  
> and get the, "this message part contains html data, but inline html  
> display is disabled, so I must click the view html data in new  
> window link to see the  html part.
>
> Have I done something wrong, or is this the way it is?  I was  
> expecting that if I receive HTML email, then show that, and not the  
> text, or I guess a link to show the text.  I can't turn the  
> plaintext inline viewer to false, because then I can't view most of  
> my mail as I normally do.  I then have to click the text icon.
>
> I hope I've explained that ok, and someone can help me fix what I've  
> done wrong, or tell me this is working as designed.
>
> Thanks again for your help,
>
> John Bennett
>

I finally figured this out, I had bad settings in mime_drivers.local.php.

John