HTML status bar in KMail message pane

[Ianseeks]

On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 02:12:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 30 July 2018 18:36:13 BST Ianseeks wrote:
> > 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
> 
> This is a loss of configurability: if I say I don't want to see it, I 
> shouldn't be forced into seeing it anyway.

 
> > > 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.
> 
> Changing those values makes no difference here - thanks for the idea though.
> 
did you reload kmail after changing the settings?  it took a few combinations and reloads before it started to work so i don't exactly know what made the config stick.  It still works this morning when i set "prefer HTML" via the menu with the "Load..." set.


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