Re: [VM] 'This email requires HTML support' from outlook.office365.com

[Uday Reddy]

jcb...@jcbradfield.org writes:

> Usually this means that the message is multipart/alternative, where
> the text/plain part says "This email requires HTML support", instead
> of (as it should) containing a plain text rendition of the text/html
> part.

Yes, that is a good explanation. There is a section in the VM Manual called

3.3.9 MIME multipart/alternative

which explains how to configure VM's handling of multipart/alternative.
Please consult that.

I set my vm-mime-alternative-show-method to 'best-internal. If html support
is available internally (e.g., using emacs-w3m) it gets chosen. Otherwise,
the text/plain version gets chosen.

Cheers,
Uday

Re: [VM] 'This email requires HTML support' from outlook.office365.com

[Julian Bradfield]

On 2018-04-19,   wrote:
> A fairly small number of my email messages turn up like this in my vm
> buffer. Lots of others with html attachments come through fine and the

Usually this means that the message is multipart/alternative, where
the text/plain part says "This email requires HTML support", instead
of (as it should) containing a plain text rendition of the text/html
part.

I haven't seen this from outlook, but no doubt it's possible to bulid
fancy enough mails that outlook gives up on producing a text/plain
version.

Is your vm configured to display html ?

Re: [VM] 'This email requires HTML support' from outlook.office365.com

[Uday Reddy]

Language like "This email" is never used by VM. You will need to hunt down
the software that is generating that message.

But if it is indeed a HTML message, you should be able to hit D a couple of
times to get a button, and view it using an external viewer.

Cheers,
Uday

pray...@unimelb.edu.au writes:

> A fairly small number of my email messages turn up like this in my vm
> buffer. Lots of others with html attachments come through fine and the
> mail itself displays fine on other devices. I presume I need to
> convince outlook I really can handle such a message. If that's right,
> does anyone know how to do it? Or does someone know of another cause
> for the problem?
> cheers
> Peter
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Re: [VM] 'This email requires HTML support' from outlook.office365.com

[John Stoffel]

>    writes:

> A fairly small number of my email messages turn up like this in my
> vm buffer. Lots of others with html attachments come through fine
> and the mail itself displays fine on other devices. I presume I need
> to convince outlook I really can handle such a message. If that's
> right, does anyone know how to do it? Or does someone know of
> another cause for the problem?  cheers Peter

Can you maybe post a copy of one of these emails?  I wonder if the
message try to run some javascript to check for whether you're
in a browser or not, so that it can give the "best" experience
possible to view the message?

I would try to save the message, then look at it with an editor to see
what the various sections of the message have for content.

Can't really help without seeing an example though.

Are these mostly from marketing companies?  Or personal emails from
friends?  That might be a good data point.

John