Re: Preferring text/plain over text/html?

[Mike Acar <mike@trolltech.com>]

Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu> wrote:
> On February 6, 2002 at 16:02, Mike Acar wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to get MHonArc to prefer text/plain versions of messages
> > over text/html in multipart/alternative?
> 
> Not without code changes.
> 
> Currently, if you specify that text/html should be excluded, then the
> text/plain will be used, but the exclusion applies to all text/html
> data, even for non-multipart/alternative messages.

Which would be ok with me; I can't really see that there's any reason to
send HTML to this list.

> Some thought needs to be applied on what would be the best way to
> support such a feature.  One part is that actual implementation, the
> other is how the user would tell MHonArc about multipart/alternative
> preference ordering.

Well, by far the most common is text/plain and text/html sent by such
clients as Outhouse (which you love so well ;), so the obvious thing
would be simply adding a prefer-multipart-plain-over-html config option.
More generally I guess you could have a config section that specified
a a multipart type and a list of MIME types in order of preference... A
truly generic solution might be difficult to describe elegantly in a
config file.

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