On Monday 19 December 2005 22:58, Holly Bostick wrote: > That does not mean that the mail is showing up as HTML. That conversion > from a text smiley to a graphical smiley is a feature of the Mozilla > mail readers (MozMail and Thunderbird); it converts the smileys it knows > to graphics. It doesn't know all of them-- this.--> :-P --> will not > show up as a graphic.
It does in kmail. So neh-neh-ne-ne-nehh, my mail client is better than yours. etc. > The thing about unreadable more likely refers to those who use > command-line mail clients like mutt or pine, because they like them, or > because they run a box without X (and just because you don't have X > doesn't mean that you shouldn't be able to read and respond to your > mail-- this is Linux, after all). Actually most console based mail clients can read html mail without needing X. Not to demean any of the other (excellent) arguments against html mail, but sometimes people do insist on sending it :( So in mutt, you would include the directive: auto_view text/html And have an entry like this in your /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap - text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -force_html '%s'; needsterminal; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html You can see all sorts of obnoxious mail attachments this way, such as msword via catdoc, and so forth. Ben -- [email protected] mailing list
