[mew-int 2585] Re: what does the "-" mean?

[vvoody]

From: Henri <henri at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 2583] Re: what does the "-" mean?
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:43:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20080817.234303.1070596063587459249.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 ;-)
> 
> 
> I see, so now "M" means it has an attachment and "-" means it's just
> text/html? in the older versions of mew it would use "M" for both
> situations, correct?
> 
> thanks for the info
> 
> henri

'M' doesn't mean it has an attachment actually. Maybe it has no attachments.
You can see the follow links for the MIME infomation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME

The '-' mark was introduced from Mew-6.0.51:
http://www.mew.org/pipermail/mew-int/2008-May/001998.html

> Also, is there a way to disable this mark? 
> 
> my setup defaults to the html and runs w3m (which works great, I've
> long ago given up hoping people would stop sending html email
> messages).
> 
> I can tell that it is multipart/alternative because I see the:
> 
> X-Mew: Text/Plain in Multipart/Alternative as a singlepart
> 
> header when I view the message. 
> 
> So I would like to disable showing the "-" mark if possible

Sorry, I have no idea. That's ok for me.
Waiting for Kazu to answer your question.

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