Re: [Evolution] HTML mail

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 00:41 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 23:25 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 00:07 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 20:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > While I don't have such cogent reasons for saying, I still think
> > > plain-text email is viable enough that a widely-used program like
> > > Evolution should support it and I think it'd be narrow-minded for a
> > > few's opinions to dictate its options.
> >
> > Maybe I'm misreading you, but Evo *does* support text email.
> > By default, I think, since I don't remember clicking an "I like
> > retro-computing" check-box.
>
> You're not misreading, I'm just unclear.  I meant to say that Evo should
> be supporting the default of text email, as in through such
> opportunities as "user prefers text email" or something.  Not Zed made
> it sound as if the current option should be changed, while I would say
> that a binary "either likes HTML or text" is a suitable option.

To me, it seems that text email *is* the default, since in the 
Tools->"Composer Preferences" General tab, "Format messages in
HTML" is *not* on by default (I think).  Also, on the Contact
window, "Want to receive HTML mail" is off by default.

While I disagree with NotZed on the modernity of using HTML mail,
I *am* glad that the default is text.

But then again, I work on OpenVMS systems, and think that COBOL is
a great language for developing "data processing" apps.

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Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>