Re: identity confusion
On Fri 24 Jan 2020 at 12:36:13 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-01-24 at 12:30, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 24 January 2020 12:06:19 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:23:03AM -0500, Wayne Sallee wrote:
> >>
> >> > <html>
> >> > <head>
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> > Thanks for the ideas.<br>
> >>
> >> You're very welcome. One small request -- could you teach your
> >> mailer to not send HTML? I was hard-pressed to make heads or
> >> tails of your response.
> >>
> >> Pretty please?
> >>
> >> Cheers & thanks
> >> -- tomás
> >
> > I'll second that, its ugly stuff to try and read as text. In fact I tend
> > to just skip over messages that have no text content.
>
> FWIW, his messages display on my end as plain text; I have my client set
> up to do plain-text display only, and if a HTML-only message shows up it
> actually tends to display as *blank*. So I infer that he's actually
> sending in both formats (which examining the raw message confirms), and
> whatever client you're using is choosing the HTML form but displaying it
> raw, instead of choosing the plain-text form.
>
> I vaguely seem to recall this being a client option that I set on my
> end, but I don't recall where and I can't find it in a quick search now.
The transition here between header and body at the server is
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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
so I think something might be converting your copy.
How did you examine your raw message?
Cheers,
David.
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