Clark Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Below is how Agent version 4 handled the e-mail when converting it to
>text. It showed up in a similar manner only with proportional fonts
>in my inbox. I am responding to the list because this may be useful
>information on email in general.
If you want something formatted a particular way, send it as a PDF or a
graphic. If it's email, then the particular email client used to read it will
format it according to how that client wants to format it. Add in issues like
Digest mode, and it's even more complex.
The "=20" and so forth are MIME Quoted-Printable encoding; any modern client
*should* handle it cleanly ("=nn" = a specific hex value; an "=" by itself
indicates a continued line). The grafs run together are perhaps due to clients
such as Outlook removing "extra" line breaks.
The "weird spacing" Steve Comstock mentioned is due to use of a proportional
font in his client.
The bottom line is, this is a lost cause.
And before someone says "What about HTML?", no, that's no better -- in fact,
it's *defined* to be worse.
...phsiii
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