[Users] Set display type in the message preview pane

Adrian adrian at aeolian.org.uk
Mon Feb 1 15:40:09 UTC 2021


As simple as that.  I should have looked a bit further.

In fact, I had found the 'Display headers in message view' Edit button,
but 'Show all headers' was overriding it.

Thanks Paul and Reni

On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 13:45:39 +0000
Adrian <adrian at aeolian.org.uk> wrote:

> I've tried to find the answer in the documentation but I probably
> haven't got the right names for things.
> 
> In the default (or at least a common) layout of Claws Mail, the
> account and folder list is on a left hand bar.  To its right the list
> of mails in the current folder is shown in a top panel, and in the
> panel below a message preview is shown.
> 
> To the right of the message preview pane is a narrow vertical bar with
> two or more icons: the top one with an @ sign is labelled Type:
> message/rfc822, and underneath are icons for each mime Content-type in
> the message.
> 
> Most of the time, the view I see is the one corresponding to the top
> '@' icon, which displays all header lines.  Since I moved to DKIM
> signing and verification, various signatures and related fields make
> the header so big that I have to scroll down to see the message
> content.
> 
> I realise that with multipart MIME there may be a number of different
> displays.  I'd choose: display the text/html part if present,
> otherwise display text/plain.
> 
> You may advise me to use text/plain for security and privacy
> reasons, and I may agree with you.  The main thing is, I don't want to
> see fifty header lines in the message panel every time I go to a new
> message.
> 
> Is there a GUI or clawsrc etc setting to do this?
> 
> Thanks, Adrian


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