Michele, When you get messages like this in KeyMail it is because the message has been sent in an HTML format.
If you are receiving messages from someone using Outlook Express, you will receive the text version regardless of whether they have set OutLook Express to send HTML or Text only. E-mail that is sent from clients that includes both Text and HTML format, will be decoded in Text format. This means that for OutLook Express, even if "Text" is not selected for sending e-mail, the BrailleNote/VoiceNote will decode the text version. The key phrase here is that for e-mail systems that send "both Text and HTML format", you will always receive the text version on the BrailleNote. OutLook Express is one e-mail program that does include both text and HTML format in the messages that are transmitted. It is good to ask your friend to resend the messages after changing their email client to send out in text only. However, you can read html format emails; its just a bit of a tricky process at this stage. Here is a post from another list member which details how to do this. reading html emails through KeyWeb Now, about html files, Keymail can read them but treats them as text files, thus the extra characters and words about font type and size, colour, table, headers, and all those <, >, and / symbols. If you have KeyWeb installed, you CAN READ html messages through Keyweb. read on, but brace yourselves. Open the e-mail in html format using Keymail. Save it by pressing SPACE with S, then when asked for a filename, hit BACKSPACE first to select in which folder and drive you want it saved temporarily. Next, press BACKSPACE with X to save it as an ASCII text file. Type your desired filename. Exit Keymail. Enter Keyweb, and at the prompt asking for the URL, press space to enter the list of favourites in My Favourites folder. Hit BACKSPACE to look for the folder and drive where you saved the ASCII text format of the html file. Select the appropriate drive and folder the way you know how to do it, press SPACE with X to hear the prompt about opening text and html files, press SPACE to look for the said file, and ENTER to open it. It's still a text file with the weird characters but now you can save it as an html file. Press SPACE with S, then BACKSPACE with X to hear the prompt "Create an html file", type a new filename or keep the one you first used, hit ENTER. FINALLY, go through the same steps of opening that new html file using Keyweb. If you used the same filename as with the ASCII text, you'll recognize it by the .htm extension. You should be able to read it as though it were plain text, I mean doing away with all the strange characters and words describing the html format. > Hi Listers > > Can anyone tell me how to get rid of those infuriating > greater-than, less-than, ampersand signs etc in emails? I just > received an email from a friend which was chockers with them. It > took a long time to read and absorb. Is there a setting to clean > them out or get rid of them? > > Thanks. > > Michele > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > >
