Dale schreef: > >> Alexander Skwar wrote: >> >> Don't send out HTML, please. Especially, if you don't make use of >> HTML features, as it then only wastes bandwidth with nothing useful >> being added. > > Well, I'm trying to find out where to change it in Mozilla.
Speaking of settings, mail can be set to be sent as plain text by default in Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail as follows (the settings given are for Thunderbird, but the Mozmail settings are very nearby in terms of finding them, if not exactly the same): To set all outgoing mail to be composed as plain-text: Acount Preferences=>Composition and Addressing under the relevant account=>uncheck "Compose messages using HTML format" Right underneath that, there is a checkbox dealing with quoting: If "When I respond, quote the original mail in my reply" is checked, use the drop-down menu below it to change "Start my reply above the quoted text" (which is default only because the word "above" comes alphabetically before the word "below", it's not a judgement of preference or usefulness) to either "Start my reply below the quoted text", or "Select the quoted text" (if you want to trim first). Or uncheck the box entirely and quote nothing (though that's not a good idea on this list, really). To set mail to this list only as plain-text, while leaving all others as whatever you want: Preferences (not Account Oppions, regular Preferences)=> Composition; under HTML and Send Options; Text Composition behaviour (not exact; I'm translating from Dutch, as that's what my desktop is in, and my Dutch is not perfect, which is why my desktop is in it :-) ), click the "Advanced" button and go to the "Plain Text domains" tab. On this tab, click the "Add" button, then in the field that comes up, enter lists.gentoo.org and hit OK. This marks all mail going to this domain (which covers all our mailing lists) as only being able to receive plain-text mail. So no matter what you compose it in, Mozilla Mail/Thunderbired will convert it to plain text when sending (because you told it that that's the only format the domain will accept , which is kinda true-- most mailing lists will reject HTML mail outright, this one won't, but this ridiculously long argument should be proof enough that the list doesn't like it). You can, of course, add any domains of other mailing lists you might be on as well. Hope this is helpful to at least some of those floundering through this thread; learn to use your programs, people, is all I can say. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
