Re: shorcut for html-mail

On Monday 26 October 2009 Ingo Klöcker wrote:

> On Monday 26 October 2009, James Kerr wrote:
> > On Monday 26 October 2009 Bengt Gördén wrote:
> > > On fredag 23 oktober 2009 15:05:03 Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > > > On 23/10-2009 14:35 Bengt Gördén <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm really against all this coloring and stuff in mail but
> > > > > as they are increasing in the form of html I need to have a
> > > > > quick way to switch between seeing an email in plain text
> > > > > or in html. The only way I've seen so far is by letting the
> > > > > whole folder have "Prefer html". Is there a shortcut I
> > > > > haven't found or could I make one myself? Or is my only
> > > > > option to plead to the developers, or maybe drag my ass to
> > > > > the c++ table and try to do it?
> > > > >
> > > > > Kontact Version 4.3.2
> > > > > Kmail Version 1.12.2
> > > >
> > > > Have you tried to set a shortcut to "Prefer HTML to Plain
> > > > Text"?
> > >
> > > Yes, I have. But that's not the way I want it to work. To read
> > > the mail in a normal way (text only) and once in a while click
> > > or use a shortcut would be the preferred way.
> > >
> > > And actually. To always have "Prefer HTML to Plain Text" is a
> > > security risk that isn't acceptable in our organisation (IRT).
> >
> > In HTML messages that I receive, kmail inserts, at the top of the
> > message, in a red outline, a comment with an option to display
> > the HTML for that message only. (Perhaps this comment is not
> > inserted in all HTML messages, but only in those that contain
> > complex code?)
>
> This box is only displayed for pure HTML messages. It is not
> displayed for messages which include both an HTML version and a
> non-HTML (plain text) version of the message text.

Thanks for the explanation. I was almost certain that the message was 
not appearing for all HTML messages but had no idea why.

>
> For the latter messages in KDE 3.5 one could click on the HTML part
> of such a message in the "message structure viewer" (i.e. the
> thingy usually shown below the preview pane unless it has been
> disabled in the settings). Then the box was displayed and one could
> enable HTML for this message.
>
> I have no idea whether it does still work this way in KDE 4.3.
>

Yes it does. (I've been using kmail for years but have never activated 
the Message structure viewer before.) 

Jim