In Digest V2004 #30, the person identified as Doug McAdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hunted and pecked out the following:
>Dear Emailers- >I recently sent this note to a person who was discussing emails. > >I don't know what you mean by *plain text*. I have not had any >complaints about how my Emailer configures and sends messages, nor of my >Server and if there is a problem please let me know. However I am having >a problem with certain messages that I receive in which there is nothing >in the body of the email and the message is in a file attachment which >necessitates opening Internet Explorer to read it... "plain text" is ASCII -- no fancy formatting (bold, italic, colors, etc.). Unfortunately MS has all its email apps set to send email as =html= (which includes all the above, plus cutesy pictures/images/smileys/etc) **by default**. Since [EMAIL PROTECTED] predates html it doesn't know how to handle that, and it arrives as an attachment. You can open the attachment in TexEdit or whatever you choose, but the result will include all the html code and be essentially meaningless; the AppleScript Tannis mentioned will eliminate the extra junk. It's been my experience that 99.9+ percent of those who use Windoze don't have the faintest idea of how to change the default settings to make OE sent plain text email -- and don't really care that others don't want to see formatted text and pictures in email. I just send them a short response that I got their message but can't be bothered to read it since it isn't plain text... -- Selah! BWms -= "If it's a hobby for us and a job for you, then why are you doing such a shoddy job?" -- Linus Torvalds to Microsoft =- ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
