Re: (HTML) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)
Thank you for all comments, Andrei. (:
Em 12/09/2021 04:57, Andrei POPESCU escreveu:
> On Lu, 06 sep 21, 16:46:24, Dedeco Balaco wrote:
>>
>>
>> Em 06/09/2021 14:25, John Hasler escreveu:
>>> Curt writes:
>>>> I suggest you follow the earlier advice, and set Thunderbird
>>>> to compose your email as plain text
>>> Or even as "normal" HTML.
>>
>> If it is trivial to me setting my mail manager to use the dark
>> background i need, and to make it ignore the (usually default)
>> background of color of all HTML messages, why the people in Debian User
>> list cannot do it?
>
> If your mail client is sending both html and plain text most subscribers
> will only see the plain text version (unless they go out of their way to
> look at the html version).
>
>> I will not change my setting! I need it. Learn to
>> deal with it. Things evolve. Being able to use *bold*, /italic/,
>> _underscore_ is a minimum of "new" things that help a lot to compose
>> good messages.
>
> You mean like the markup in the text above? :)
>
> (probably added by Thunderbird for the text version)
>
> While I do agree with you somewhat, as far as I'm aware there is no
> agreed upon standard for HTML mail. How the receiving end will display
> your message is very much open to interpretation.
>
> Some mail clients might even "lie" to you and show e.g. a sans font when
> composing, but the receiving end will display that message with a serif
> font (didn't bother to check the source to see which one of them is
> "wrong").
>
>> If Thunderbird has a problem when writing the automatic
>> text messages, together with the composed HTML ones, this is a reason to
>> _**fix**_ it, not to never use anymore.
>
> There should be a setting in Thunderbird to *not* remove "extra" line
> breaks (or similar) for the text version, please enable it.
>
>> I have installed another mail
>> manager in my computer: but it is bad, pretty horrible. It does not show
>> HTML messages. It does not compose HTML messages. And it is pretty
>> counter intuitive to configure, in several parts. It seems handy, have
>> nice things. But if you do not know them, or are not familiar enough
>> with "something", to be able to understand it, you cannot use them. Its
>> name is Claws Mail.
>
> Last time I tried it Claws Mail could display (but not compose) HTML
> messages, you might need to enable it and/or install some plugin.
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
>
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