Re: PATCH: don't include text/html in reply, ...

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

> Hi all!
> 
> I frequently get HTML mails from Micro$not Outlook (ugh). Upon reply or
> forward, balsa includes both the plain text and the text/html part, which
> is
> not exactly what I want. The attached patch for libbalsa/mime.c checks if
> a
> part of type text has html as subtype and in this case excludes it form
> the
> reply, ...
> 
> I *think* some RFC (I forgot which one) states that a mail with a html
> body
> should *always* have a copy in text/plain format (is this correct?). So
> the
> method should be safe...
Not quite so; refer to previous messages on this.
> 
> Opinions?
Well, I really like the way Balsa allows me to view both the text and html
version of a message - unlike other MUAs that will silently ignore one of
them. I guess this may just be fortunate a side effect of not handling
"multipart/alternative", but don't change it, please.
> 
> Cheers, Albrecht.
> 
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