View text version of multipart/alternative
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Often HTML in emails - and in particular in newsletter - is broken, more or less on purpose (due so-called "fixes" stacked over time to properly render messages in purposely broken clients: Outlook is the first in this list).
Working around each of those issues is a huge effort. Still, users want to be able to read their mails.
Describe the solution you'd like
A "View textual version" option in the actions menu of messages, when I have an HTML message and a text version it available in the MIME.
This would at least mitigate issues with broken HTML messages.
Describe alternatives you've considered
None.
Additional context
Follow-ups #8819
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Research direction
No file or test is named. Start by tracing the message actions menu and how multipart/alternative MIME parts are exposed to the message view. Done means a “View textual version” action appears only when both HTML and text versions are available and shows the text version.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100