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Re: text/html vs. text/plain attachments priority



On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 04:22:46PM EST, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 16Nov2008 12:52, Chris Jones <cjns1989@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:29:25AM EST, Peter Münster wrote:
> | > On Sun, Nov 16 2008, Chris Jones wrote:
> | > > are affected), could anyone advise how I can fix that and make mutt
> | > > choose the text/plain version over the text/html version?
> | > 
> | > You could put something like this in your muttrc:
> | > alternative_order text/plain
> | 
> | Wonderful! You just made my day.
> 
> You may find you want to augument this later; there are various sources
> out there (typically newsletters) that send html and plain text, but put
> something totally useless in the plain text section. So you may end up
> using message-hook to make text/plain the default except for certain
> senders.

Well now that Mr. Muenster kindly indicated the solution .. I was able
to google for more info - using "mutt alternative_order" as keywords --
and take a look at the fine manual, naturally and I do realize that my

alternative_order

.. in my .muttrc is probably not going to be quite as flexible as it
should be.

One great feature of mutt is that you can usually experiment
interactively with new settings while in mutt, but I'll be damned if I
can figure out how to issue these.

I tried 

:?alternative_order
:alternative_order ?

.. to query the default settings before I added the command to my
.muttrc and restarted mutt and was never able to get this to work.

No big deal but I'm obviously missing something.

Thanks!

CJ