[TriLUG] HTML email

John Franklin franklin at elfie.org
Fri Jan 9 16:02:11 EST 2004


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?

jf
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