Thanks tomi, 

I missed your reply.

This works  beautifully!

Thanks

Bart
 
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:51:26 +0200, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:37:42 +1100, Bart Bunting <bart@bunting.net.au> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I am having an issue with html emails displaying correctly.
> > 
> > For some reason the first time I view a html email it displays
> > correctly.  All subsequent attempts to view html emails result in the
> > following error:
> > 
> > mm-shr: Wrong type argument: bufferp, "*Summary*"
> > 
> > 
> > The message opens but the parts are hidden like this:
> > 
> > [ multipart/mixed ]
> > [ text/html ]
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not exactly sure what is going on here or what the best way to debug
> > is?
> > 
> > Any one have any ideas or suggestions?
> 
> You could try
> 
> (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m)
> 
> or
> 
> (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m-standalone)
> 
> 
> For w3m-standalone you need w3m binary to be installed
> and with w3m you also need some w3m.el elisp packages
> (which may or may not be installed along emacs)
> (or something)
> 
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> > Bart
> 
> Tomi