[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: identity confusion



On Friday 24 January 2020 12:36:13 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.

This is the trinity 14.0.7 version of kmail which was all updated in the 
last month, and all bets are off as you may be correct. I'll have to do 
some snooping I guess.  Thanks for the heads up.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>


Reply to: