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Re: [LUG] 24 port switch

 

On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:46:48 +0100
John Williams wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 16:30 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote:
> 
> > > > Alex, is there any chance you could turn off HTML e-mails?
> > > 
> > > Every time you send an HTML formatted email, a kitten dies.
> > > Honest.
> > 
> > Don't see what the problem is... I've been using for years a mail
> > client that strips the HTML and leaves clean text.  Of course,
> > there is the option to view the HTML message as HTML, but that's
> > not the default.
> > 
> > Grant.
> 
> I was always under the impression that HTML formatted mail to lists
> was, generally speaking "not the done thing"

It is indeed.

> Certainly turning off HTML globally at this end for me (and probably
> for others) would make it very problematic in viewing the majority of
> mailouts from many companies where there is no text body to the mail.

HTML hasn't been "turned off" in Claws Mail.  It just doesn't render
the HTML by default - if I want to view the message as HTML I have to
click on a little icon on the right side of the message.

> Like I said before. I can read Alex's email. Its just smaller than I
> would personally prefer, nothing more than that.

Grant.

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