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bjorntj

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Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 150

Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

Only a small amount of my html emails displays correctly at the momen, most of them just displays a blank page...

Anyway to fix this?

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BTJ

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loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

I'm fully up-to-date and I am not seeing this behavior at all.  Do you get any errors?

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skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

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Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

I have the same issue and my system is fully up to date. There is nothing output to stdout when viewing a "bad" html formatted message.

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bjorntj

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Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 150

Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

Yes, same here... No error is logged, the only thing logged is this:

mimeview.c:834:text/html
fancy_viewer.c:83:fancy_get_widget: 0x368f470

(claws-mail:4540): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 1038 was not found when attempting to remove it
fancy_viewer.c:233:filename: /home/bjorntj/.claws-mail/mimetmp/00000001.mimetmp.html
fancy_viewer.c:249:using utf-8 charset
fancy_viewer.c:252:zoom_level: 100
fancy_viewer.c:385:navigation requested to file:///home/bjorntj/.claws-mail/mimetmp/00000001.mimetmp.html
fancy_viewer.c:444:Starting request of 62 file:///home/bjorntj/.claws-mail/mimetmp/00000001.mimetmp.html

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stanhope

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Registered: 2016-04-18

Posts: 6

Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

Downgrading shared-mine-info to previous (1.5-1) fixed it for me on 4 systems. No idea why. Just process of elimination on that day's updates.

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stanhope

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Registered: 2016-04-18

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Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

Perhaps I spoke too soon: my main system is an older desktop running XFCE and nouveau. I just did another full upgrade, and shared-mime-info 1.6-1 again broke the fancy plugin, and downgrading to 1.5-1 again fixed it. However on a newer laptop with a similarly configured XFCE, the same regular Arch X86_64 kernel, but nvidia-340xx, the fancy plugin works fine with shared-mime-info 1.6-1. The laptop dual-boots to KDE, and the fancy plugin is fine there also. I'd mistakenly assumed it would be broken on all the systems. My apologies. I'll just ignore the updates to shared-mime-info in my dekstop until someone smarter than me figures this out.

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gilbertw1

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Registered: 2016-04-27

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Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

Same problem here......downgrading shared-mime-info to 1.5-1 fixed the problem for me as well.

Scimmia

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Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

Does it work if you remove ~/.config/mimeapps.list

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,543

Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

Does it work if you remove ~/.config/mimeapps.list

Made no difference in my case.
Downgrading shared-mime-info to 1.5.1 fixes it for me.

TheBodziO

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From: Dukla, Poland

Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 230

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Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

I confirm this issue as well (my shared-mime-info is 1.6-2).

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stanhope

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Registered: 2016-04-18

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Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

Does it work if you remove ~/.config/mimeapps.list

Nope. Tried the latest shared-mime-info 1.6-2 with and without ~/.config/mimeapps.list. No joy. Back to shared-mime-info-1.5-1

Scimmia

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Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

Strange, it works fine for me.

TheBodziO

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From: Dukla, Poland

Registered: 2006-07-28

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Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

Well, the most significant difference between 1.5-1 and 1.6-1/2 in regard to (X)HTML appears to be this magic value declaration added in 1.6 (I snipped the most interesting part from the diff):

@@ -19653,6 +19665,13 @@
     <sub-class-of type="application/xml"/>
     <generic-icon name="text-html"/>
     <glob pattern="*.xhtml"/>
+    <glob pattern="*.xht"/>
+    <magic priority="60">
+      <match value="//W3C//DTD XHTML " type="string" offset="0:256"/>
+      <match value="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" type="string" offset="0:256"/>
+      <match value="&lt;html xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" type="string" offset="0:256"/>
+      <match value="&lt;HTML xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" type="string" offset="0:256"/>
+    </magic>
     <root-XML namespaceURI='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' localName='html'/>
   </mime-type>
   <mime-type type="application/zip">

Right now I really don't have a heart to dig any deeper into that ;}, however… incidentally messages which don't show up are… surprise, surprise: XHTML. At the same time HTMLs work just fine. Admittedly, I tested only a couple of emails at hand (about a pair of each kind), but the results are consistent. It'd be great if anyone could test and confirm (or debunk) my observation.

After all I think that shared-mime-info is not to blame here. I'd rather take a look at fancy plugin or claws-mail code for any clues how the XHTML type is handled (claws happily shows text/html as a mime for XHTML, but it may be just what is indicated in message header itself). Or… just a wild thought ;}… maybe report a bug to claws-mail?

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jdarnold

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From: Medford MA USA

Registered: 2009-12-15

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Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

Thank you thank you thank you! I was going crazy, as HTML rendering was not working out. Downgrading to 1.5-1 worked great! Probably, like you say, a problem with the fancy plugin, but this will do for now.

gilbertw1

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Registered: 2016-04-27

Posts: 14

Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

I've opened a bug report on the claws-mail bug tracker here:

http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mai … gi?id=3644

TheBodziO

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From: Dukla, Poland

Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 230

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Re: Claw Mail's fancy plugin is currently broken

It appears that Martin Schwenke found a solution—at least I can confirm it works. It's described in his comment to the bug reported by Gilbert. Basically the solution is to remove the file

~/.local/share/mime/packages/user-extension-html.xml

and recreate MIME database (just in case)

update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime

As ignorant as it sounds I've got no idea why exactly this rectified the problem, but it did nonetheless, which makes my life much easier again ;}.

Seriously though, if someone knows the precise “why”, I'd love to hear it.

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