David W. Tamkin wrote:
> When I wrote,
>
> T > However, Outlook Express can be set once and for all to send plain text
> T> except on messages where the sender specifically selects rich text or
> T> adds an attachment or stationery.
>
> John Levine replied,
>
> L> That's mostly true, although I have had lots of multipart/crud mail show
> L> up from people who swear they set all their Outlook or OE settings to
> L> plain text.
>
> It's entirely true, but there are several settings that have to be changed
> from their defaults. Likely they didn't get them all. For example, there
> is one for sending replies in the same rich/plain selection as the message
> being answered, which overrides the basic rich/plain selection. If you
> L> My advice for people using AOL is to install Netscape 6.1.
>
> Does Netscape have some special hook into AOL mail (it might, just as OE
> does for Hotmail), or is there some other email provider to whom you refer
> them?
AOL owns Netscape, remember? In Netscape 6, one of the options when
you're setting up your mail account is to use your AOL account. It
looks to me like technically it's nothing special, it's just an IMAP
server that's accessible within AOL's network. It's quite possible that
any other IMAP client such as Eudora or OE would work.
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