On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:26:35AM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote:
| By the way, while on the topic of email formatting, I have noticed that
| some of the list seems to prefer correspondence to be sent in plain text
| rather than html formatted.
Yes. I, for example, use mutt+less to view mail. It doesn't do a
very good job of dealing with HTML (I get to see all the tags!). I
followed someone's instructions for setting up mutt to use
lynx -dump to strip out the HTML tags, but sometimes that really
hoses quoting and indentation.
| but until then i have attempted to configure outlook express to use
| plain text.
That's great. Thank you.
| but of course, outlook express is capable of receiving html formatted
| emails, so I have no way of checking if it actually works.
|
| so, is it working?
Yes. Here is a snippet of your headers :
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700
Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
That "Content-type: text/plain" shows that the message was sent in
plain text. Any half-*** mailer should allow you to view all message
headers when you want, so you can see exactly what is going on.
HTH,
-D
PS. Does anyone know how to instruct mutt to view the text/plain part
of a message by default with both text/plain and text/html parts?
