On 2019-10-29, John Long wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:50:05 -0400 > Patrick Shanahan <p...@opensuse.org> wrote: > >> * Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> [10-29-19 13:10]: [...] >> > Muttdown (a "sendmail" filter) which creates mutlipart alternative >> > html/text messages is the only reason I've been able to continue to >> > use mutt for the past 5-6 years. About 90% of the people to whom I >> > send email can't deal with plaintext only. The display of plaintext >> > is butchered horribly by Outlook, > > This is sadly, absolutely true. It's beyond frustrating to format an > email carefully in ASCII text and then have it look like a telegram > from Charles Manson by the time Outlook is done with it. [...]
What about composing html in the text editor and changing the content-type to text/html with ^T in mutt? It might be inconvenient for more complex messages, but could perhaps help in these cases where you're sending something that would otherwise go as plain text to Outlook users. -- Nuno Silva
