[TriLUG] HTML email

David R.Matusiak dave at matusiak.org
Fri Jan 9 16:18:43 EST 2004


On Friday, January 9, 2004, at 04:02  PM, John Franklin wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 07:56:24AM -0500, Magnus Hedemark wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, John Franklin wrote:
>>
>>> Rich text mail, OTOH, provides all the features people want in their
>>> mail (fonts, italics, large print, embedded images) without coming 
>>> even
>>> close to allowing for executable content.
>>>
>>> Rich text mail is readable by most (if not all) modern mail clients,
>>> including text based ones like mutt.
>>
>> If you sent this in rich text, then I must disagree;  your message was
>> completely indistinguishable from what you were quoting (it was not
>> preceeded by any quote character).
>
> Weird.  Mutt shows it preceeded with one or more greater-than (>) quote
> symbols.  Although the text/enriched and text/plain do differ slightly
> in layout, they both have the quotes.
>
> What mailer do you use?

This email (as well as the one with all the fancy colors and formats) 
read perfectly well, including multi-level quoting.  Mail.app on Mac OS 
X 10.2.8.  I am glad, however, that this discussion has finally found 
legs and is continuing.  I can't wait to see what the weekend brings!




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