Re: problems reading mail with mime parts

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Some nore information: If I do an E on the messages which don't work I
see the following:
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:31:10 -0500,
Greg Bognar wrote:
> 
> The relevant bits of my setup (using use-package):
> 
> (use-package mime-play
>   :config ;https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WlFaq#toc42
>   (setq mime-play-find-every-situations nil
>         mime-play-delete-file-immediately nil))
> 
> (use-package mime-view
>   :init
>   (add-hook 'wl-summary-mode-hook
>             (lambda ()
>               (local-set-key "\C-c\C-o" 'wl-summary-view-html)))
>   :config (setq mime-view-text/html-previewer 'shr
>                 mime-situation-examples-file (concat user-cache-directory "mime")
>                 ;https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WlFaq#toc42
>                 mime-view-mailcap-files (concat user-cache-directory "mailcap"))
>   
>   ;; Functions
>   ;; Reading HTML mail
>   (defun wl-summary-view-html ()
>     (interactive)
>     (save-excursion
>       (wl-message-select-buffer wl-message-buffer)
>       (let ((done nil)
>             (mime-preview-over-to-next-method-alist
>              `((wl-original-message-mode . (lambda ()
>                                              (setq done t)))))
>             type subtype)
>         (while (not done)
>           (setq type (cdr (assq 'type (get-text-property (point) 'mime-view-situation))))
>           (setq subtype (cdr (assq 'subtype (get-text-property (point) 'mime-view-situation))))
>           (if (and (eq type 'text)
>                    (eq subtype 'html))
>               (progn
>                 (setq done t)
>                 (mime-preview-play-current-entity))
>             (mime-preview-move-to-next))))))
> 
>   ;; Suggested by Erik Hetzner (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WlFaq#toc43)
>   (defun mime-preview-extract-current-entity (&optional ignore-examples)
>     "Extract current entity into file (maybe).
> It decodes current entity to call internal or external method as
> \"extract\" mode.  The method is selected from variable
> `mime-acting-condition'."
>     (interactive "P")
>     (cl-letf (((symbol-function #'mime-play-entity)
>                (lambda (entity &optional situation ignored-method)
>                  (mime-save-content entity situation))))
>       (mime-preview-play-current-entity ignore-examples "extract"))))
> 
> (use-package shr
>   :config (setq shr-max-image-proportion 0.7
>                 shr-use-colors nil
>                 shr-use-fonts nil))
> 
> (use-package mime-shr
>   :after (shr)
>   :config (setq mime-shr-blocked-images nil))
> 
> That displays all html mail, whether pure or attachment, with shr (or external
> browser).  You need to set
> 
> (defconst user-cache-directory "~/.cache/emacs/")
> (make-directory user-cache-directory t)
> 
> but that is just my personal preference.
> 
> For the contents of the "mailcap" file, see https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WlFaq#toc42.
> 
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> On Thu 21 Nov 2019 at 08:15 John Covici wrote:
> > 
> > One additional note, now if the buffer is pure html, not a mime
> > attachment, I am getting the html coding and shr is not invoked -- is
> > there a way to get that to work?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 03:36:06 -0500,
> > John Covici wrote:
> > > 
> > > Well, I finally have gotten things working, one problem was that even
> > > though I have libxml2, emacs was not compiled with it, but I did not
> > > know that until I tried to do shr-render-region and it said that.  So,
> > > I compiled emacs and deleted some experiments in mime-previewer-alist
> > > and now things are working.
> > > 
> > > Thanks guys for all your help.
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:33:47 -0500,
> > > Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:29:56 +0100, "Herbert J. Skuhra" wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > 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.
> > > > 
> > > > If your Emacs already supports shr/eww you can try:
> > > > 
> > > > (setq mime-view-text/html-previewer 'shr)
> > > > 
> > > > I guess you can remove w3 support in Wanderlust by modifying
> > > > mime-view-text/html-previewer-alist.
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > Herbert
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > > How do
> > > you spend it?
> > > 
> > >          John Covici wb2una
> > >          [email protected]
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > How do
> > you spend it?
> > 
> >          John Covici wb2una
> >          [email protected]
> > 
> 

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-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici wb2una
         [email protected]

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