On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 11:34, Pete Biggs wrote: > I don't like HTML emails, so I have my default set to not send mail > using HTML. However, I'm not so anti-HTML mail that I won't deal with > mail that people send me in HTML! Consequently, sometimes I have to > reply to it. Now some of the mail I get is from people like Ebay and > the formatting of their automatically generated HTML email is full of > tables - but when I reply to it the *text* in the composer still retains > the table structure. This makes it very difficult to edit because when > you add something below some text in a table, it gets inserted into the > table and appears as *quoted* text, not new text.
My default composing style is text. Yet when I reply to an HTML-formatted message, even though the reply window opens up in "text" mode, I can choose "Format -> HTML" from the drop-down menu, and the quoted message appears properly formatted again. Try it. > > What is extra annoying, is that the email comes as multi-part text & > HTML, so there is no reason why the text part couldn't be used for the > reply - except there is no option to choose what to include in the > reply. > I suppose a related issue is that there is no way of choosing which part > of a multi-part email is displayed - so even if there is a text part to > the email, I can only see the HTML part. > > Is there any way around these things? No comment. Maybe something for the wishlist? -norm -- Norman Joseph, Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] IC|XC Concurrent Technologies Corporation 814/269.2633 --+-- Global Systems Center NI|KA *** Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle *** _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
