I can't seem to make a message-hook work, what am I doing wrong?

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 09:05:18PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 10:06:41AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 10:56:12AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > > So, I have the following lines in my muttrc file:-
> > > 
> > >    auto_view text/html
> > >    alternative_order text/html text/plain text
> > >    message-hook '~f .*ilovefreegle.org.*' 'alternative_order text/plain text/html'
> > 
> > Each invocation of alternative_order appends to the list - it doesn't erase
> > and reset the values.  You'll want to use 'unalternative_order *' to clear
> > out the list.
> > 
> That would explain it! Thank you.
> 
> 
> > Also, don't forget the message-hook you have above will affect that message
> > and all subsequent messages, unless you have a default message-hook to reset
> > values back.
> > 
> Yes, I was aware that I hadn't done that as required.
> 
Well I now have:-

    auto_view text/html
    unalternative_order
    message-hook ~A "alternative_order text/html text/plain text"

    message-hook '~f ilovefreegle.org' 'unalternative_order'    
    message-hook '~f ilovefreegle.org' 'alternative_order text/plain text/html'    

... and it's still not working.  Obviously I'm still misunderstanding
something!

Here's the relevant bit of the header of a message I'm trying to match
and use the text/plain part:-

    From: Chris <replyto-85018331-95728 at users.ilovefreegle.org>
    To: Chris <cl at isbd.net>

... and just to prove there is a text/plain part to view:-

->   I     1 <no description>                                   [multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 29K]
     I     2 ├─><no description>                              [text/plain, quoted, utf-8, 0.2K]
     I     3 └─><no description>                                [text/html, base64, utf-8, 28K]

(you can see why I prefer the text/plain version!)


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Chris Green