# Email mode config improvements

**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/email-mode-config-improvements/140
**Category:** Forum and website feedback
**Created:** [April 13, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/email-mode-config-improvements/140 "2017-04-13T20:51:04Z")
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### Author: ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/email-mode-config-improvements/140/17 "2017-04-20T14:03:48Z")

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Hi Greg,

> [@](#):
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> The “Include an excerpt of replied to post in emails” seems to no longer  
> work at all. (I have never seen an excerpt in text, but now also missing in  
> html). Any idea what is happening?

Maybe I’m misunderstanding. Would you mind to forward me a few messages (inorton @ bwh)? Do you see a “Previous Replies” section with 1 previous message quoted? It seems to be working correctly on my test account for both the `text/plain` and `text/html` sections – here’s what I get on my test account (which is in mailing list mode) for [this message](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/saving-images-from-slicer-views-in-headless-compute-node/138/11):

```auto
mike_i:
So thanks to you (and your older self from 6 years ago

Fair enough!

If it turns out you need to solve the other problem, for example extracting rendered 3D views from a headless Slicer I checked and a docker image that exposes a vnc connection for Xdummy works for me (you don't need to connect to it, just running the server seems to be enough).

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Previous Replies

Thanks very much for the advice. Unfortunately, my project requires the linux machine to run automatically without a VNC connection to it. However, you did help me find a solution using a different method through an old post you made:
https://sourceforge.net/p/teem/mailman/message/27766556/

I think that approach is going to work. So thanks to you (and your older self from 6 years ago) I think the problem is solved! I'll keep you updated on my progress.

Mike

Posted by mike_i on 04/19/2017

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