Re: [Evolution] Suggestions on HTML mail/ML-reading

[Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com>]

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 20:52 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 07:12 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > The only way I've figured to handle
> > this is to 'prefer PLAIN' and
>
> I discovered this recently too.  Text only simply doesn't work as
> expected.
>
> There is another option but I have never tried, use a procmail recipe to
> strip the html and then set to plain text.
Not a satisfactory solution, having to alter email because the mail
reader can't handle it properly? HTML is often used for formatting that
isn't possible in plain text (tables, anybody?).