Marc Perkel wrote:
If you can't handle HTML then filter it on your end.
I use Thunderbird which handles HTML mail fine. However, I will point out that a lot of people use Outlook (the Outlook in MS Orafice) because they are supporting Outlook users and need to be familiar with the latest Mickeysoft bozoisms in Outlook. Outlook can be set to compose and send text-only e-mail just fine. However, when Outlook RECEIVES an HTML mail and the user replies or forwards it, then the text-only settings are ignored, the mail remains HTML-formatted. The HTML-formatting breaks the usual ">" quoting badly, it greatly discourages editing of posts the user is replying to to trim out the extraneous cruft, (ever tried selecting a block of forwarded text and deleting it in Outlook) and it hides URL's embedded in the mail message. It's possible to click a button in Outlook and reformat text your forwarding to text-only, but this puts the burden on the recipient to remember to do this - and also when you do it, the mail is really formatted badly and the user has to manually reformat it. Now granted a lot of this could be corrected by bugfixing Outlook and isn't the fault of HTML mail - but, it is currently broken NOW and Mickeysoft isn't likely to correct it. You must understand that if your using Outlook to handle both internal corporate mail (in which case you may want to HTML-format it) and external mailing list mail, that people who send HTML mail to mailing lists really cause you a problem. Ted
