Hi all!

I use KDE and kmail on my business desktop. I receive several mails per day and most of them are written using html. Thus I activate the HTML view as the default for Kmail.
However - since an KDE-update (I can not remember which one exactly) I need to click the acknowledgment for EVERY mail which is very annoying.
I do not want to allow downloading content from the internet per default - I just want to view the HTML content per default without loading content from the internet. I know this was possible before but now its not.
Is there any option I can enable to get this behavior back?

Thanks and greetings
Martin

Hi, you are not telling what distro or what version of KDE you are using. But when I upgraded my Kubuntu 14.04 to KDE 4.14 I faced this issue.

I solved it by going to KMail Settings, the Security window. I "unticked" Prefer HTML to Plain Text, restarted KMail. Then went through the settings again and now selected "Prefer html to plain text" and restarted KMail.

Since then it has worked as intended for me

Awesome. That did the trick. Thanks!

btw: I use debian ("jessie" release) and KDE 4.14

I've run into the same thing, but only with emails from a certain sender. I tried the change setting+restart thing and it didn't help.
In my case, we regularly get emails sent from a noreply@myorganization.com address - generated by various internal tools including our Jira server, and in some cases setting the sender as the name of the person who made the change that triggered the email.

When I edit the contact for this email address, it has Show messages received from this contact as "HTML", and Allow remote content in received HTML messages is checked.

This is a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 w/ KDE 4.14, with some configs copied from a previous 12.04 w/KDE 4.14 install (I don't think I'd copied anything relating to KDE PIM - I did set all of that stuff up from scratch)

airdrik wrote:I've run into the same thing, but only with emails from a certain sender. I tried the change setting+restart thing and it didn't help.
In my case, we regularly get emails sent from a noreply@myorganization.com address - generated by various internal tools including our Jira server, and in some cases setting the sender as the name of the person who made the change that triggered the email.

When I edit the contact for this email address, it has Show messages received from this contact as "HTML", and Allow remote content in received HTML messages is checked.

This is a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 w/ KDE 4.14, with some configs copied from a previous 12.04 w/KDE 4.14 install (I don't think I'd copied anything relating to KDE PIM - I did set all of that stuff up from scratch)

There was a bug around the whole "set certain contacts incoming mail to view like this or that". In short (as I recall it, I reported the bug) if you had html and set a contact to html it would actually view mails from that sender as non-htlm and the other way around. However, to my knowledge the bug has been resolved since KDE 4.14.1 or 2 (I am on 4.14.2 myself)

I just tried various combinations of those settings for the contact in question, including restarting kmail in between, and no change, e-mails from this sender continue to be plain-text with the link to display in html.

Looking in my address book, I found 3 contacts for the e-mail in question (two associated with our Jenkins build server user, one without any other names); two with it set to use HTML, one set to use Plain Text.
I set them all to default (use global setting) and the e-mails now use HTML