Kmail (v4.4) no longer shows MIME tree

[Stan Goodman]

Two newsletter messages have been received from different senders, that
contain no HTML part, although mail from these sources invariable has an
HTML copy. My first reaction was that I must inadvertently have changed a
Kmail setting, but I do not find an option for retaining or discarding.
What am I overlooking?

[Stan Goodman]

At 11:42:07 on Saturday Saturday 13 November 2010, Will Stephenson

Post by Stan Goodman
Two newsletter messages have been received from different senders,
that contain no HTML part, although mail from these sources
invariable has an HTML copy. My first reaction was that I must
inadvertently have changed a Kmail setting, but I do not find an
option for retaining or discarding. What am I overlooking?

It's documented in the KMail handbook in the Layout subsection.

It is? Where is there anything about plain-text part, HTML-part, etc?

*****
Layout

Show long folder list lets you toggle the long folder list on and off. The
long folder list shows folders all the way down the left side of the KMail
main window, which lets you see more folders than in the short view, but
it takes away some space for viewing the text of the messages. With
Display message sizes selected there will be another column in the Header
pane that shows the messages' size in bytes. Thread list of message
headers will put all the messages in a kind of tree, so the replies to a
message are below that message.

With Message header threading options you can select under which
conditions threads should appear open by default (i.e. not collapsed). You
can still open/close threads using the +/- buttons if you don't disable
that here.

With Display of Date you can choose between several date formats. The
Localized Format is the one you can specify in KControl.
*****

[Will Stephenson]

Post by Stan Goodman
Two newsletter messages have been received from different senders, that
contain no HTML part, although mail from these sources invariable has an
HTML copy. My first reaction was that I must inadvertently have changed a
Kmail setting, but I do not find an option for retaining or discarding.
What am I overlooking?

It's documented in the KMail handbook in the Layout subsection.

Will

[Stan Goodman]

At 19:15:58 on Saturday Saturday 13 November 2010, Will Stephenson

Post by Stan Goodman
It is? Where is there anything about plain-text part, HTML-part, etc?

"
The Message Structure Viewer option lets you choose when the structure
viewer will be shown: the structure viewer is a part of the main
window that lets you access all parts of a message. Show never will
disable the structure viewer (note that you can still access
attachments as icons), Show always will show the structure viewer even
if there is only one plaintext part. Show only for non-plaintext
messages will display the structure viewer only if it makes sense,
i.e. if the current message has attachments or has HTML parts. "
The message structure viewer should be in the 4.4. config dialog under
Layout though.

That must me the section about "Message Preview Pane". The middle button
is checked ("Show the message preview pane below the message list"), as it
always has been. Actually, the structure tree has always been beneath the
message itself, never below the message list. There is no button for under
the message itself. At this point, I care less about where it appears
than I do about it appearing somewhere.

[Will Stephenson]

Post by Stan Goodman
It is? Where is there anything about plain-text part, HTML-part, etc?

Looks like someone added this to the manual after 4.4 then:
"
The Message Structure Viewer option lets you choose when the structure viewer
will be shown: the structure viewer is a part of the main window that lets you
access all parts of a message. Show never will disable the structure viewer
(note that you can still access attachments as icons), Show always will show
the structure viewer even if there is only one plaintext part. Show only for
non-plaintext messages will display the structure viewer only if it makes
sense, i.e. if the current message has attachments or has HTML parts.
"

The message structure viewer should be in the 4.4. config dialog under Layout
though.

Will

[Anders Johansson]

Post by Stan Goodman
That must me the section about "Message Preview Pane". The middle button
is checked ("Show the message preview pane below the message list"), as it
always has been. Actually, the structure tree has always been beneath the
message itself, never below the message list. There is no button for under
the message itself. At this point, I care less about where it appears
than I do about it appearing somewhere.

Doesn't "View->Show Message Structure" work?

Message preview isn't about the structure tree, the message preview is what
you call "the message itself"

Anders