Re: [Evolution] Send messages as plain text to select recipients

[Vincent Hennebert <vhennebert+evolution gmail com>]

On Fri, 2021-08-27 at 14:23 -0600, larry wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-08-27 at 07:55 -0700, Robert McDonald wrote:
> > > I wasn’t aware of that setting, thanks for that! Unfortunately
> > > that
> > > doesn’t seem to be working. When I added the Evolution list to my
> > > contacts, that check box was there but greyed out (unticked).
> > > When
> > > I replied to this message the editor was in HTML mode.
> > > I tried with another personal contact I already had in my list,
> > > same issue.
> > > Is there another setting that might conflict with this one?
> > I don't know.  I am not an Evolution expert.  I'm running Evolution
> > 3.40.0-1 under KDE and Ubuntu 21.04 and I don't seem to have
> > trouble
> > changing the value of that checkbox (it's not disabled as you are
> > reporting).
>
>
> I have deleted most of this thread, so pardon me if these setting was
> mentioned. I don't think they're on a per user basis, though.
>
> ---settings
>
> Evolution Preferences>Composer Preferences>
>   General:
>     Format messages in HTML: unchecked.
>   Confirmations:
>     Before composer format changes from HTML to Plain Text
>
> Evolution Preferences>Mail Preferences>
>   HTML Messages:
>     Prompt on sending HTML mail to contacts that do not want them
>
> --- end of settings
>
> Behaviour when replying:
>
> When replying to a plain text message:
>   replies with plain text
>
> When replying to an HTML message:
> Brings up a requester...
> Are you sure you want to change the composer format?
> Switching to Plain Text format will cause the text to lose all the
> HTML
> formatting. Do you want to continue?
>
> Choices:
> Don't lose formatting
> Lose formatting
>
> Hope this helps.

Thanks. I guess I would prefer a solution that allows me to keep
formatting messages in HTML by default, but I’ll consider this one.

The ‘Wants to receive HTML mail’ check box remains greyed out whether I
enable or not the ‘Format messages in HTML’ option. So I guess the two
are not related. But then, in which conditions would the former _not_
be greyed out?