Re: identity confusion
On Friday 24 January 2020 13:13:02 David Wright wrote:
> 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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>b3b3@WayneSallee.com Resent-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:23:20 +0000 (UTC)
>
> <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.
Usually I hit a v to look at the raw, but for some reason I didn't, this
is kmail, which was all updated from trinity's fork in the last month,
while I'm healing from an aortic heart valve replacement. So I have some
snooping thru the config to do. Blame it on oldtimers? ;-)
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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