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