[ctbritt]

Hello all— weird problem that I've had for a while, but just now realized it.

Mail.app in 10.4.2 won't read multipart MIME emails. If I get an email that's plain text in one part and HTML in the second part, it only reads the plain text part and ignores the HTML part. For a long time, I didn't even realize this was happening until I looked at some of the raw headers. This is from a recent email:

In the header:

Code:
MIME-version: 1.0 (Generated by Pantomime 1.2.0)
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="=_07558c8eeec3b7d3a7f1bea8d4d31e1e"

Then, the first boundary:

Code:
--=_07558c8eeec3b7d3a7f1bea8d4d31e1e
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset=us-ascii

This part gets read ok. But then the second boundary comes up:

Code:
--=_07558c8eeec3b7d3a7f1bea8d4d31e1e
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/html;
	charset=us-ascii

And nothing. Mail.app refuses to display the HTML part of this. Is this a problem with WebCore? What should I do? Any suggestions?

[ctbritt]

success: i found the PreferPlainText key in my mail prefs and deleted it. Now it works again like it's supposed to.

[lucashaley]

Originally Posted by ctbritt

success: i found the PreferPlainText key in my mail prefs and deleted it. Now it works again like it's supposed to.

I've been having this same problem, but I couldn't find that key in com.apple.mail.plist. Is that where it is?

Thanks for any help!