HTML status bar in KMail message pane

[Ianseeks]

On Monday, 30 July 2018 15:38:40 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 July 2018 14:46:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Today my Gentoo system was upgraded to the latest kde-apps 18.04.3,
> > including KMail.
> > 
> > There used to be an option to hide the HTML status bar in the message
> > pane, but I can't find it now. Has it moved, or been removed?
mine seems to change depending if i set to prefer HTML or plain text, it doesn't hide the bar, it just shows the description
> 
> Moreover, my setting "Allow messages to load external references from the 
> Internet" now has no effect: I have to "load the external references for 
> this message by clicking here" on every HTML message.

I'm not sure whats happening here.  I was getting the same results as you but after a lot of playing around with config options/combinations, it now seems to work fine. I played around with Settings/configure kmail/security and the <Folder/Message Default Format> menu options.

> Are useful facilities being withdrawn?
> 
> 


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