but unfortunately as soon as you unselect the message you were looking at the display changes to unformatted and needs to be changed for seeing it formatted again, which is a barrier to general users
so is there a way to have it format html by default that is acessible to people not compiling their own clients?
ideally at some point this would be accessible through a checkbox in the settings, but for the time being is there a config to edit or something like that?
also, what would be nice for a future release is a image to base64 converter built into the client, that could vastly broaden the userbase for bitmessage
HTML content is purposely not displayed by default unless the user is white-listed, is in your address book, or you are subscribed to them.
It would be better for us to support attachments before we bother building in a base64 encoding mechanism. It would be more data-efficient also.