[MlMt] Viewing text vs HTML part of message

[Charlie Garrison]

Good morning,

On 24 Oct 2016, at 8:21, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 23 Oct 2016, at 16:53, Charlie Garrison wrote:
>> On 22 Oct 2016, at 2:45, Bill Cole wrote:
>>
>>> This seems like an excessively complex alternative to the "Prefer 
>>> plain text" checkbox in the Preferences->Viewer pane...
>> But doesn’t that apply to all mailboxes?
>
> Yes. Which is how the FSM intended all email to be and to be read: 
> plain text in the One True Encoding, US-ASCII. :)

I don’t need to be convinced. I didn’t even know what html email 
looked like until a few months ago. ;-)

I have found it better to now accept html email rather than keep telling 
clients I missed their “inline comments in red” and so “didn’t 
see their request”. IOW, there is a subset of messages which is large 
enough that I want to keep default to show html. (I’ll forget to go 
hunting for possible comments with html highlighting). But there are 
some messages (like the mailing list) which are downright offensive as 
html.

I agree that email should be plain-text, but I also believe that war is 
lost and the pragmatic approach is to switch to a client like MailMate. 
I still feel like I’ve got a plain-text MUA, but with modern 
concessions.

I’m still going to wait to hear if Benny has any clever suggestions 
for per-mailbox view prefs.

Thanks,
Charlie


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     Charlie Garrison                   <charlie at garrison.com.au>
     Garrison Computer Services      <http://www.garrison.com.au>
     PO Box 380
     Tumbarumba NSW 2653  Australia

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