Re: PATCH: don't include text/html in reply, ...

[John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr webmail bmi net>]

On 2001.08.22 10:52 Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I frequently get HTML mails from Micro$not Outlook (ugh). Upon reply
> or
> forward, balsa includes both the plain text and the text/html part,
> which is
> not exactly what I want. The attached patch for libbalsa/mime.c checks
> if a
> part of type text has html as subtype and in this case excludes it
> form the
> reply, ...
> 
> I *think* some RFC (I forgot which one) states that a mail with a html
> body
> should *always* have a copy in text/plain format (is this correct?).
> So the
> method should be safe...
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> Cheers, Albrecht.
> 
> -- 
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Whether it is correct or not may be besides the point--both Netscape and
Macrohards' Outlook/Outlook Express have options that allow the sender
to FORCE only sending HTML mail.  This may be horrid, but the reality is
that I get plenty of "empty" messages this way--either because they're
HTML-only, or someone down-stream stripped the HTML-only message off. 
Really clutters the Inbox . . .  :)

jmc