Sounds like we're talking about multipart/alternative mail here (ie. the mail item contains both an HTML version and a plain text version, and the MUA is expected to display whichever version it prefers).
If the HTML displays badly there could be two reasons: 1. HTML is correct, but MUA's HTML rendering engine is broken - in which case, raise a bug! 2. HTML is broken (ie. makes bad assumptions about screen resolution, font size, contains stupid GIFS). In which case a "display plain text if at all possible" option would be handy. But remember - with MIME e-mail, there isn't really any way to avoid downloading both the plain text and HTML versions, even if you're only interested in the plain text. So you won't gain anything by insisting on viewing the plain text version if you have a slow link (right?) -Matt On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 05:49, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 00:43, Colin Walters wrote: > > > I have written a patch which implements this > > (http://people.debian.org/~walters/debian/render-html.patch). Some of > > the Evolution developers aren't convinced that many people would use > > it. So, we decided to have a poll. If you would like to see this patch > > in Evolution, please send a message in support to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I do not see the point for 'many users would use it'. From my > understanding a Mail program should be able to display the email as > plain text ( != source ). When that is done HTML rendering is an > optional feature. > > Why do I need this patch ? > > I use evolution over really slow dial-up lines with IMAP. I want to see > the ascii email only, no pictures, no attachments, just the information. > > Please accept it, > Soeren. > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
