On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 07:50:36PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: > Chris, > > Based on the excerpt you posted: > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 10:10:51PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > ... > > ... > > ... > > Subject: Your order 3179771 is due for delivery by DHL Parcel UK > > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > > > > boundary="--boundary_145134_db6b4c85-2751-452f-bf4b-c56010b07587" > > Message-ID: > > <eaa14d01-a923-4fcd-8ff1-88ed5b135...@bh-exch01.business-post.com> > > Status: RO > > Content-Length: 20807 > > Lines: 285 > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML> > > <html> > > <head> > > <!-- Define Charset --> > > ... > > ... > > ... > > > > ...it appears this is a multi-part message, theoretically intended to > have both an HTML part and a plain text part, where the first part is > HTML that is idiotically marked as plain text, because their IT folks > are too lazy/stupid to produce a proper multipart/alternative message. > I would encourage you to complain to DHL, but I would also expect that > to be futile, so I won't bother. ;-) > > But the next thing I would recommend is look again at the message > parts (press v on the message in the index). There may be an actual > HTML part that you're not seeing, because your settings prefer the > plain text (as mine do). In that case, Mutt is displaying the faux > plain text, since you quite reasonably told it to, and doing it > verbatim and not trying to run any conversion on it, since... DHL told > Mutt it shouldn't need to. > > Probably you can select the HTML and manually display it. Either that > or DHL is just really that bad at e-mail. :-( > I'm pretty sure that there was only one part, I saved the message and opened it with vi[le] and a quick scan through it showed the HTML header stuff at the top and closing HTML at the end.
I will check more carefully next time I get one though, thanks. -- Chris Green
