Jeff> Try Jeff> (setq vm-auto-displayed-mime-content-type-exceptions '("text/html")) Actually, I've tried that. With that I still have to hit 'D' to get the text to show up, so it doesn't buy me anything and I have the added inconvenience of not automatically seeing the other html formatted email that doesn't have problems without hitting 'D'. Of course, I personally believe that html formatted email is evil, but still have to live with it being sent to me occasionally... Now if I had a way to say "if multipart/alternative and text/plain is present, that takes precidence over text/html", that'd be great. But I couldn't find any way to do that. If I had the time I'd hack up some of the VM code to get that functionality, but I was hoping that perhaps I was just missing something and this could already be done somehow. Thanks, Chuck -- Charles K. Hines <ckh(a)requesttech.com&gt; <hines(a)gderome.com&gt; Principal Scientist at ReQuest Technologies Inc (http://www.ReQuestTech.com/) Martial Arts Instructor [Modern Arnis and Balintawak Escrima] "Go back to sleep, Chuck. You're just havin' a nightmare -- of course, we ARE still in Hell." (Gary Larson)