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[Uday Reddy <u.s.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Diekhans writes:

> Exactly.  This seems to be the most natural behavior.  That is, the mime
> part is either displayed or there is a button.

The reason vm-mime-show-alternatives arose can be understood from this
thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.vm.info/browse_thread/thread/230530b5570a30e9/e4a33090647e58a7?lnk=gst&q=uday+multipart#e4a33090647e58a7

It is a wrapper that makes multipart/alternative look like
multipart/mixed.  The VM's internal code doesn't know anything about
it.

I am still wondering why you can't just view text/html and forget
about the text/plain parts.

Cheers,
Uday

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display default multipart/alternative method and show-alternatives
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/499742
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Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs: Triaged

Bug description:
vm 8.1.0-beta

Enhancement request:

Often get multipart/alternative mail, would normally like to display the text/plain version
by default, but sometimes this just indicates the mail is html, rather than being a ture
alternative format.

Would like to be able to both display the default and get the vm-mime-show-alternatives 
buttons to be able to show the other parts. 

Also vm-mime.el has some checks for vm-mime-show-alternatives being 'mixed, nowever this is not
documented in the info file.

thans!