On 2010/10/27 00:22, Kathy Meyer wrote: > Jane, OK, at the risk of getting in trouble and being called a "rule > breaker" again...can you send me this same message in HTML? I'd like > to see what the difference is? How can anyone tell if it's HTML or > plain text if there are no colors or unusual fonts? Maybe you could > send me something privately. I'll bet there are others who are > wondering the same thing. Kathy
Using Thunderbird (a 'real' email client as opposed to the web-based tools like Gmail) it's very easy to see. There is an option on the View menu for Message Source. This shows me exactly what my email client received from the Legacy server. Jane's 'Trial' message was in plain text, unlike the original message from Sherry that started all this kerfuffle, that had two copies of the visible message inside it: one in plain text and the other in HTML. Judicious use of fonts is one way of helping me to see whether a received message is in HTML or plain text: I use a monospaced font for plain text messages and I override any font specifications in an HTML message, so that I can clearly see: a Chancery font makes this pretty conclusive :-) What this means is that email viewers (such as Gmail or any other web-based tool) can use the HTML version for display purposes, and fit it into the web browser window without mucking their display up. Those of us that prefer to converse using plain text, can also see the message as we want to see it. Thunderbird, has 3 options for viewing messages: Original HTML, Simple HTML and Plain text. So, even though you view a message in plain text, it doesn't mean to say that the original message was sent as plain text. There is a very simple algorithm to strip all HTML codes out of a message and end up with a plain text version. I have Thunderbird set up so that when I start a new Legacy thread (first message of a linked sequence), or reply to a message, I send plain text. That's a setting on the Properties of the LUG entry in my Address Book. When replies come in, I have further set Thunderbird up to ignore any HTML and reply in plain text. That's a general setting of the program, associated with the composition and sending of messages. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
