On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 17:44:17 GMT, John Horn Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>David Simpson wrote: >> Ask the client, politely, to send e-mail in text only format. > >I just found out that I have the same problem with all newsletters I >receive in HTML format. >In the end it is of course not a problem with Mozilla, but with the >programs used to send the messages. They don't send the messages with >content-type: text/html. So it's by design that Mozilla shows these >messages as text/plain. >Still, this makes the Mozilla mail client less usable. Most people in >larger corporations use Outlook, and most of them send HTML mail with it. >With this client I can ask, but how often will I have to ask in the future? >However, elsewhere in this thread I've read that I might be able to >explicitly mark some messages as HTML, forcing Mozilla to parse them as >HTML. This would be a solution to my problem. > >Thanks for your suggestion, > >John > My own attitude is that if someone, anyone, sends me an HTML e-mail I WILL NOT read it. Sorry about the shouting but that is the way I feel. 99% of HTML e-mail is SPAM. I simply delete it and block the sender.
