Pratik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > 1. OE mails being displayed in utterly small fonts. Hence I feel the > need to be able to view it as plaintext. A button somewhere would be > excellent. Most mails that I do get from OE/Outlook don't contain any > special rich text formatting. They are HTML only because OE/Outlook > sends them that way.
Try Pegasus Mail as your mail reader... it gives you the configuration option to always display the plain version where an alternative exists (and there's a "Change View" button to switch between the plain and fancy versions no matter which you select as your default). Pegasus also doesn't request any images from remote servers; it only displays images in HTML messages if they're sent along with the message. This means that some email (mostly spam) shows up as an entirely blank page because it had nothing but remote images (with no ALT text). Usually in the case of OE messages, when I check out the plain vs. fancy versions, the plain is more readable; the fancy one uses a teeny tiny font, and sometimes a strange color scheme too. There's still a lot of bandwidth and disk space wasted on massively useless messages... I recently got an online newsletter that had about 3K of text, but the HTML version had a 80K image file for the logo at the top, because the idiots in charge didn't resize the image but rather attached a full-size one and scaled it down with the width and height attributes. The world is full of morons, isn't it? -- Dan
