In response to Alexander Staubo <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Apr 9, 2007, at 18:10 , Gerard Seibert wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:34:22 -0500 > > Erik Jones <erik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Hmmm... I didn't have anything HTML set anywhere. I did however > >> have message formatting set to Rich-Text (although I was unaware) > >> and have switched that to plaintext. This look better? > > > > Yes, much better. I believe that 'rich text' is essentially HTML, > > although I might be mistaken. I know that 'GMail' users have that > > problem all the time. Of course 'GMail' users have lots of other > > problems also. > > Erik has actually been posting messages as "multipart/alternative", > where the message is included in both 7-bit plaintext *and* HTML, the > idea being that the mail viewer itself can pick the format it knows > best. You are simply using a mail reader which prioritizes HTML; > perhaps it has a setting to let you prefer plaintext? <email religion> Sylpheed has this option, which is one of the reasons I use it. </email religion> -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
