>PM displays whatever you've selected as your preference, and when >you want to see the other part of the mail, there is a pop-up menu >allowing you to select that. What else could PM possibly do, I wonder?
Ability to select text in HTML view and scrub it to the visual/text- appearing part as a plain text quote when hitting reply. Because some HTML+text messages are easy to read in the HTML part, but the plain text formatting is very poor to unreadable (e.g. no line feeds). I usually request plain text version for lists, but sometimes you can't win. Given it is very unlikely I will ever be able to change this properly at the source (be it corporate infrastructure or well- meaning-but-clueless relatives), this would bridge the gap. They get to use HTML and I get to reply in plain text. No detour to a web browser required. Everyone wins. In this way, HTML on/images off would work well as a default. Bonus ability: pull out/expand hyperlinks in the selected text in an acceptable plain text way, e.g.: > The company's new website is now at Example.com <http://www.example.com/> Such ability would make PowerMail more palatable to people who must work with HTML mail on a daily basis, but still grasp the value of using plain text. Having to go to a browser just to copy something right back into the e-mail client makes the cost of entry too high. Chris --
