Re: [Evolution] [OT] Mailing list filters

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf rocketmail com>]

On Sat, 2015-03-14 at 12:02 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-03-14 at 09:49 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > And I would STRONGLY refute your assertion that HTML is prevalent these
> > days - less than about 5% of the emails I receive (that aren't spam) are
> > HTML.
>
> Same here, but I don't know if anyone really knows. Most of my mail in
> terms of numbers of messages comes through lists such as this one, in
> which HTML is strongly discouraged. Most of the rest is from people
> using some kind of webmail, or an app on their phone, and that tends to
> be in the form of rich text. Not much is HTML aside from marketing.

Most mails I receive are from Linux and FreeBSD mailing lists and less
of them are HTML formatted, most are plain text. Most private mails I
receive from people who aren't geeks, are HTML formatted, less are plain
text or RTF.

My guess is that HTML is prevalent, but that doesn't mean that it's
good. I share incoming mails by Evolution and Claws. I set up claws to
only display plain text, but since sometimes important HTML mails are
hard to read in plain text, I allow Evolution to display HTML. However,
I set up Evolution to _never_ allow to load images from the Internet.