On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 15:25 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:13:52 +0000 > From: Pete Biggs <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Evolution] How to display an email in a fixed-width > font? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > {snip} > The fixed width font is used to display plain text emails - i.e. those > with either no content type or a content type of text/plain. HTML > emails (i.e. those with a content type of text/html) will be displayed > using the proportional font (unless the HTML says otherwise). > > If you have multipart/alternative encoding, then by default the most > content rich version possible will be displayed. > > There is a plugin called "Prefer Plain Text" - if this is enabled, > then > with a multipart/alternative email the text/plain version, if it > exists, > will be chosen in preference to the text/html version. > > As far as I know though, there is no way of choosing the version > displayed on a per-message basis, nor is there a way of forcing the > displayed text to be fixed-pitch. > > P. With the above posting as a backdrop, can someone tell me where to find a discussion of the whole email file format, content display, "envelop" and related family of issues? I routinely have troubles with email sent through various clients or servers -- typically MAC or Win-dose but there are others -- where I cannot see attachments or a "conversation" of messages [aka, {message} {reply}...{reply}... {quoted}...{forward}...ad lib] is only partially readable if at all. I know that "rich text" and "web page" formatting adds lumps and wrinkles to how things work, but I'm hoping that someone has read all of the gnarly bits (sic) and written a summary for mortals to learn from. Thanks, ~~~ 0;-Dan
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