Re: [Evolution] Suggestions on HTML mail/ML-reading

2009-08-28 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 17:34 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 23:03 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > My settings are 'Prefer plain' as well, on 2.26. My issue is that some > > of the mail I'm receiving doesn't respond well, for example HTML-only > > mail that DOES render okay in plain tex

Re: [Evolution] Suggestions on HTML mail/ML-reading

2009-08-28 Thread Milan Crha
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 23:03 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > My settings are 'Prefer plain' as well, on 2.26. My issue is that some > of the mail I'm receiving doesn't respond well, for example HTML-only > mail that DOES render okay in plain text gets the HTML shown, while some > mail which doesn't make s

Re: [Evolution] Suggestions on HTML mail/ML-reading

2009-08-28 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 09:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 13:39 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 17:01 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > > What I'm asking about here isn't HTML's suitability for email, simply > > > whether I am able to select easily whether

Re: [Evolution] Suggestions on HTML mail/ML-reading

2009-08-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 13:39 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 17:01 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > What I'm asking about here isn't HTML's suitability for email, simply > > whether I am able to select easily whether I want to view a particular > > message in HTML or plain text. Specifi

Re: [Evolution] Suggestions on HTML mail/ML-reading

2009-08-28 Thread Milan Crha
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 17:01 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > What I'm asking about here isn't HTML's suitability for email, simply > whether I am able to select easily whether I want to view a particular > message in HTML or plain text. Specifically, I want to default to plain > text and have an easily a

Re: [Evolution] Suggestions on HTML mail/ML-reading

2009-08-28 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 08:30 +0200, Patryk Benderz wrote: > [cut] > > Not a satisfactory solution, having to alter email because the mail > > reader can't handle it properly? HTML is often used for formatting that > > isn't possible in plain text (tables, anybody?). > Read this please: > www.asciiri

Re: [Evolution] Suggestions on HTML mail/ML-reading

2009-08-28 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] > Not a satisfactory solution, having to alter email because the mail > reader can't handle it properly? HTML is often used for formatting that > isn't possible in plain text (tables, anybody?). Read this please: www.asciiribbon.org -- Kind Regards, Patryk "LeadMan" Benderz

Re: [Evolution] Suggestions on HTML mail/ML-reading

2009-08-27 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 20:52 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 07:12 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > The only way I've figured to handle > > this is to 'prefer PLAIN' and > > I discovered this recently too. Text only simply doesn't work as > expected. > > There is another option but I

Re: [Evolution] Suggestions on HTML mail/ML-reading

2009-08-27 Thread Jay Daniels
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 07:12 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > The only way I've figured to handle > this is to 'prefer PLAIN' and I discovered this recently too. Text only simply doesn't work as expected. There is another option but I have never tried, use a procmail recipe to strip the html and then se

[Evolution] Suggestions on HTML mail/ML-reading

2009-08-26 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
Hi all, A few suggestions on what's been bugging me usability-wise with Evo. If the response here is positive (meaning I don't get many "you're out of your mind!" responses) I'll formally add them (as enhancements) to the bug-tracker. 1. I've defaulted to PLAIN rather than HTML mails, since too m