Thunderbird Query

[den]

I'm switching over to Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client. How do I make Thunderbird display an html email as it is supposed to be viewed and not as a pile of unreadable code?

Comments

[hendikins.livejournal.com]

Well, there is View -> Message Body As -> Original HTML/Simple HTML/Plain Text.

However, the message itself is probably broken if you're seeing markup. Any correctly sent HTML message should show up correctly (unless you used the Simple HTML or Plain Text viewing options).

The most common cause of this is the message only containing HTML, and not the appropriate MIME information. The most common messages that do this are spam. Also, I think we ship with Javascript disabled by default, which can also cause this to happen under rare circumstances (again, usually spam).

I also hate HTML e-mail, and send/view all mine as plain text...

If neither of the above apply here, throw me a line at [lurking at wolfox dot f2o dot org]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I tried that. I think the original html email may be broken. I can view it using Eudora but not Thunderbird.

Bugger.

[elektron.livejournal.com]

Eudora seems to break html emails (it takes the message body and strips out the plaintext version). It doesn't change Content-Type from multipart/alternative to text/html, though.

My copy of Thunderbird just shows nothing for mails like that, though (Mail seems to work fine). You could try Changing Content-type manually (including boundary="---blahblah" which is possibly on the next line) to text/html (this requires editing the mailbox in, say, Notepad, since I haven't found a mail client with a decent "edit message" yet).

The better way is to make a "temp" mailbox, copy the affected messages there, close Thunderbird, edit them all, delete temp.msf (it's the message index or so), and then re-open the mailbox, and replace the screwed-up messages. (The worse way is to edit the mail in the original mailbox, but since you have to delete the index, you lose the status on messages, such as 'read' or 'replied' or stuff.)