On 2011-04-20 at 11:36:53 +0000, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> How do I set up VM to properly display HTML mail messages (or hand
> them off to something which can)? I'm running VM 8.1.93a with GNU
> Emacs 23.1.1 on Mac OS X. I see a variable, Vm Mime Text/Html
> Handler, which is set to auto-select, but when I attempt to view an
> HTML mail it says something like "inline display by nil failed".
> (Sorry, the message doesn't stick around long in the minibuffer and
> view-lossage doesn't display it.) I see w3m and w3 as choices but
> don't know what either one is or how to install them (does GNU
> Emacs have a package installer like XEmacs? If so, I couldn't find
> it.) I don't have lynx.
I have
(setq vm-mime-alternative-select-method
'(favorite "text/plain" "text/html"))
and it works fine. I recommend to comment out all the other
(vm-auto-*, vm-mime-* variables) first, if you have set them. They
caused a lot of confusion...
Regards,
Reinhard
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