Thunderbird displaying incoming emails as plain-text instead of HTML

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Ok, I've tweaked every setting I can find in Thunderbird, including the obvious stuff like View>Message Body As>Original HTML

If I receive an email that is in HTML format only, then Thunderbird will display it as such, with clickable links, etc. But if an email comes in that contains both HTML and plain-text version, Thunderbird is showing me the plain-text version only.

I'm getting frustrated... any pointers are appreciated.

Here's (truncated) source from a message that's coming in as plain-text when there is definitely HTML encoding there. In fact, if I view this same email in Outlook, I get all the lovely clickable links and everything.

Code:
------=_NextPart_707a89ac8592467a995a06e982
Content-Type: text/html;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Shipment Notification</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8">
<STYLE>
       body, td, table, div { font: 10pt Arial;}
    </STYLE>

<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD>

(Body removed)

------=_NextPart_707a89ac8592467a995a06e982
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

(You are seeing the plain text version of this email because your email client does not support HTML with images.)

(Body removed)

In this example, Thunderbird shows me the version which clearly states "You are seeing the plain text version of this email because your email client does not support HTML with images." My permissions are set to allow all HTML and images, however, including permissions.default.image being set to 1 in my about:config.

Help a simpleton out!
 
Look in the View Menu for Message Body As. Select one of the HTML views. If that's not what you want, try the other HTML view.

I like plain text by default. Less tracking and security issues.

Phil
 
I just switched to Thunderbird. Did anyone find a workaround for this?
 
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