[mew-int 2582] Re: what does the "-" mean?

[vvoody]

From: henri <henri at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 2581] what does the "-" mean?
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:15:27 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20080817.231527.21010533715566019.henri at example.com>

> 
> I just upgraded to mew 6.1 and notice some of my messages have the
> mark "-". I took a quick look at the docs online and didn't find
> anything.
> 
> what does it mean and how do i clear it?
> 
> thanks
> 
> henri

'-' means the message you received is a multipart/alternative message.

That is, you will see a text/plain one and a text/html one of your message in Mew.
That depends on your email client whether is show you the text one or the html one.
In Mew, you can set 'mew-use-alternative' variable to 't' (default) to display the 
text form of '-' message according to 'mew-mime-multipart-alternative-list'.

I wish I have explained clearly ;-)

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