On 23/08/2017 21:26, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 23/08/2017 09:03, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>> You (Dale) seem to have corrected the multipart/alternative problem, except >>> one message (Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: downgrading glibc) where >>> multipart/alternative went through. >>> >>> I would never design an email client to send multipart/alternative by >>> default, and might design an email client to not support >>> multipart/alternative at all in composed messages. >> >> And that's why your mail client will never rule the world, but Outlook >> and GMail's web interface does. >> >> I think it's high time we techies all got over the HTML thing now. We >> all have high speed internet these days, you can't buy a spinning drive >> smaller than 1TB anymore and apart from a few holdfasts like decent >> Mailman lists (eg this one and kernel.org), email is a thing that idiots >> at work use like it was IM. Most other folks moved on... >> > > I tend to agree with that. Mine shows both plain text and HTML just > fine. Either one works. By default, it blocks remote content which > generally results in a somewhat plain text email anyway, until I tell it > to show remote stuff. The only reason I do set it up this way is for > gentoo.org and kde.org. Everyone else gets HTML, all the time. > > I suspect the percentage of even Gentoo mailing list users that use > software that can't show HTML is small. I wouldn't be surprised if it is > single digits even. That said, Seamonkey is starting to rub me the > wrong way. The only reason I'm still using it is because of email since > some websites don't load correctly anymore. Since they changed that > reply to list to reply to sender, that has thrown me a serious curve > ball. Before mentioning Thunderbird, it has the same default. I found > that out while trying to figure out Seamonkey. So, if I switch from > Seamonkey for email, it'll be something totally new and may even have > the same stupid "feature". > > Maybe one day someone can post in HTML and no one says anything. o_O
The only cases I see nowadays of really needing non-HTML mail is a) this list and b) mutt (or alike terminal MUA) for server mails which is invariably always text-only anyway... People who send me mails with excessive HTML just go in my kill file on Office 365, and it's the company spending $brazillions on that storage, not me -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
