[kdepim-users] KMail not showing content of older email unless I go menu View-View Source - SOLVED kind of

[O. Sinclair]

On 02/12/2014 23:04, Erik Quaeghebeur wrote:
> O. Sinclair:
>>
>> [...] for now I have tried saving one of these
>> mails (that creates a something.mbox file) and to my surprise the
>> "kmailviewer" informs me it is multipart but only one part will be
>> shown... and then views it perfectly!
> 
> Which part does it show, the plain text or html? It may be that it defaults to plain, but tries the html part first because of your settings.
> 
>> I simply edited away the html part (there is plain text and then an html
>> part), saved it and imported it and that works. Though that is VERY
>> tedious work given the amount of email I am dealing with here.
> 
> I wrote a Python script that can be used with the KMail ‘pipe through’ filter to do just this, reduce multipart/alternative to its text/plain part. See 
> 
> 	https://github.com/equaeghe/mailfilters
> 
> and in particular the alternative2.py script (and its alternative2plain symlink). Test this first on the command line to see if it does what you want. Afterwards, I do hope it will be useful, but you of course use it at your own risk (greatly reduced by applying it to message copies and not the original).
> 
>> Wish there was (at least) a way to do it from inside KMail or some
>> setting "with multipart only show one part" if you get what I mean
> 
> In my setup (version 4.12.5), plain text is standard, and html (if parsed correctly) is an ‘HTML status bar’-click away...
> 
> First go to
> 
> 	Settings > Configure KMail >
> 
> then there are two places with relevant settings
> 
> 	1. ‘Appearance’ (I have a non-English version and the language switch back to US-English seems incomplete) > Show Message Window > activate ‘show HTML status bar’
> 
> 	2. ‘Security’ (...) > Reading > deactivate ‘prefer HTML to plain text’
> 
> 

Thanks for all input! What part that KMailviewer "outside KMail" shows
it does not tell me. All and any attempt to change settings inside KMail
have no impact.

BUT here is what happened: "thanks" to my changing the location of my
account from an ip-number to the format "mail.mydomain.com" KMail and
Akonadi (or however it works) decided that it was now a completely new
resource.

It dumped all mail to infinity and redownloaded them fresh from the
server and suddenly all mail are perfectly readable...

I still have old copies in Local Folders (had them on a pop-resource
earlier and I am these days VERY careful about deleting anything in
KMail until I am like 120% convinced all is good) and those remain
unreadable.

Can not explain this, will discuss on KDEforums whether a bug should be
filed or not.

Kind regards,
Sinclair
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