diff --git a/util/RfMail.cs b/util/RfMail.cs
index a08e258..2437be3 100644
--- a/util/RfMail.cs
+++ b/util/RfMail.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.IO;
+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 
 using MailKit.Net.Smtp;
 using MailKit.Net.Imap;
@@ -326,6 +327,35 @@ namespace rockfishCore.Util
                 var name = sender != null ? (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(sender.Name) ? sender.Name : sender.Address) : "someone";
 
                 quoted.WriteLine("On {0}, {1} wrote:", message.Date.ToString("f"), name);
+
+                //TODO: get text message just like in reader here for html only message
+                //sometimes body text is empty.
+                /*
+                 var theBody = m.GetTextBody(MimeKit.Text.TextFormat.Plain);
+                if (theBody == null)
+                {
+                    //might be an html email, try to get the text anyway
+                    var ht = m.HtmlBody;
+                    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(ht))
+                    {
+                        theBody = "**** HTML-ONLY MESSAGE ****";
+                        theBody += "\r\n=-=-=-=- TEXT CONVERSION =-=-=-=-\r\n";
+                        theBody += StripHTML(ht, true);
+                        theBody += "\r\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-";
+                        theBody += "\r\n=-=-=-=- SOURCE HTML =-=-=-=-\r\n";
+                        theBody += ht;
+                        theBody += "\r\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-";
+                        theBody += "\r\n******* END MESSAGE *******";
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        theBody = "NO MESSAGE BODY WAS FOUND NEITHER HTML NOR TEXT";
+                    }
+                }
+                sb.AppendLine(theBody);
+                 */
+
+
                 using (var reader = new StringReader(message.TextBody))
                 {
                     string line;
@@ -668,7 +698,32 @@ namespace rockfishCore.Util
                 sb.AppendLine(m.Subject);
                 sb.AppendLine();
                 sb.AppendLine();
-                sb.AppendLine(m.GetTextBody(MimeKit.Text.TextFormat.Plain));
+                // sb.AppendLine(m.GetTextBody(MimeKit.Text.TextFormat.Plain));
+                //TODO: if it's an all html email then body will be empty, so attempt to co-erce it into some readable text because the above is not working for that
+
+                var theBody = m.GetTextBody(MimeKit.Text.TextFormat.Plain);
+                if (theBody == null)
+                {
+                    //might be an html email, try to get the text anyway
+                    var ht = m.HtmlBody;
+                    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(ht))
+                    {
+                        theBody = "**** HTML-ONLY MESSAGE ****";
+                        theBody += "\r\n=-=-=-=- TEXT CONVERSION =-=-=-=-\r\n";
+                        theBody += StripHTML(ht, true);
+                        theBody += "\r\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-";
+                        theBody += "\r\n=-=-=-=- SOURCE HTML =-=-=-=-\r\n";
+                        theBody += ht;
+                        theBody += "\r\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-";
+                        theBody += "\r\n******* END MESSAGE *******";
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        theBody = "NO MESSAGE BODY WAS FOUND NEITHER HTML NOR TEXT";
+                    }
+                }
+                sb.AppendLine(theBody);
+
                 rfMessagePreview preview = new rfMessagePreview();
                 preview.id = uid;
                 preview.preview = sb.ToString();
@@ -685,6 +740,14 @@ namespace rockfishCore.Util
         }
 
 
+        //convert html to text
+        public static string StripHTML(string HTMLText, bool decode = true)
+        {
+            Regex reg = new Regex("<[^>]+>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
+            var stripped = reg.Replace(HTMLText, "");
+            var ret = decode ? System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(stripped) : stripped;
+            return ret.Trim();
+        }
 
         /// <summary>
         ///