Subject: bug#16982: Mail displayed improperly after,viewing email with HTML inside.

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:24:29 -0800

Hi Bill,

"James L. Barker" <[email-masked]> writes:

> -- Description:  Regular Text email is displaying fine.  However when you move
>    to an email that contains HTML, the backround colors get messed up, but the
>    text seems to display properly.  But when you move back to view another plain
>    text email, the plain text email, gets around 50 spaces added to the front of
>   the mail message, which skews the viewer.
>
> Version: Emacs 24.3
> OS: RHEL 6.5
> Email: mh-e  8.5
>
> Steps to reproduce.
> 1. M-x mh-rmail.
> 2. Move to email with HTML, press enter to view.
> 3. Then move to plain text email, press enter to view
>
> Hack fix:
> I was able to get around this for now, by putting this in my .emacs
> (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'html2text)
> I am guessing that something was done to the HTML viewer on emacs from 23 to 24
> which is causing this.
>
> This bug does not exist with 23.3.1 with MH-e 1.8.2.

This has been sitting in the bug tracker for 6 years or so.  Could you
please help look into it if/when you find some time?

Thanks in advance.