Ben schreef: > 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.
Actually, it shows as a graphic inT-bird as well. They've expanded their list, and I picked the wrong one. How about this, then--> :-o ? > > >> 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 Not to disrespect your mad cli skills, but that's a lot of additon there. Is the 'average' mutt user going to want to do all that? I am really asking, since I don't know anything about what the 'average' mutt user might want to do or be capable of doing under 'average' circumstances, simply by virtue of being a person who uses and enjoys mutt (which is on my list of apps to try one day). > > You can see all sorts of obnoxious mail attachments this way, such as > msword via catdoc, and so forth. I was about to say, "Why on earth would you send a Word attachment to a mailing list?", then I thought about some of the posts I've seen on MLs this past week-- somebody sent a *10MB* trace log attachment to the Wine list.... so I realize that I already know that there are some people so clueless that they seem almost mad. So it is apparently important to tell people not to do such things (just as it is important to instruct people not to put their cat/dog in the microwave to dry them off after a bath). <sigh> Holly -- [email protected] mailing list
