Re: problems reading mail with mime parts

Have you tried M-x describe-variable RET w3-mode-map?  What does it say exactly?

You said

> Hi.  I am having a problem reading mail if it has mime parts.  I get
> the message symbols definition as variable is void w3-mode-map.  I
> install w3m even though I don't use w3 and even put (require
> 'mime-w3m) but no joy.

But w3m and w3 are different things.

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On Wed 20 Nov 2019 at 18:01 John Covici wrote:
> 
> So, when I uninstalled w3, I get the problem I had in my original
> message.  How can I fix that problem, so I can get rid of w3?
> 
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:29:56 -0500,
> Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:29:10 +0100, John Covici wrote:
> > > 
> > > I had to install w3 to even be able to read the email, but now how
> > > can I uninstall it?
> > 
> > How did you install w3? Elpa? 
> > 
> > > I would really like lynx to render the html as I am using the
> > > virtual console.  I am not sure how to do this now.
> > 
> > No idea, if/how it is possible to use lynx.
> > 
> > Install libxml2 and try again. If you are building from source you
> > have to recompile Emacs. If emacs-w3m is not installed/enabled shr
> > (wrongly called eww in my previous e-mail) will be used to render
> > html.
> > 
> > --
> > Herbert