[MlMt] *Really* not sending HTML. Is it possible?

[Bill Cole]

On 2024-12-27 at 18:44:14 UTC-0500 (Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:44:14 -0500)
Bill Cole <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> On 2024-12-27 at 18:42:41 UTC-0500 (Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:42:41 -0500)
> Bill Cole <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> is rumored to have said:
>
>> On 2024-12-27 at 18:32:33 UTC-0500 (Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:32:33 -0500)
>> Bill Cole <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
>> is rumored to have said:
>>
>>> One of the reasons that I use MailMate is that when I adopted it, it 
>>> was possible to configure MM to generate proper text email: 
>>> text/plain format=flowed.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure that remains possible. Recently I discovered that I was 
>>> generating multipart/alternative messages with a HTML part for no 
>>> good reason. I'm not aware of making any change to cause this.
>>>
>>> I could rather easily write a snippet for my mail system that 
>>> removes HTML parts and reconstructs the message, but that should not 
>>> be needed. I really truly want my mail to only include a HTML 
>>> version when I explicitly tell it to, perhaps by getting a warning 
>>> if MM thinks it must create HTML.
>>>
>>> If anyone has a way to make MM work correctly and never generate 
>>> HTML, please share.
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>>
>> Amazingly, THAT message did nopt generate HTML, so I KNOW it must be 
>> possible.
>>
>> The most annoying issue I have with MM is how it just does stuff 
>> based on guessing what I want, when what I want is a tool I can 
>> actually make do what I know I want.
>
>
> Of course, this reply DID generate HTML.
>
> Extremely annoying.

I think the answer is that if you use a signature which has an "HTML 
Variant" box checked in the Signature editor it forces generation of 
HTML even though it uses the plain text variant.

But if this has an HTML part, I'm wrong.


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