I think that you are missing the point the Chris Clifton was making in
this thread.

The Webmail extensions are not magical they are logical.  What they do
(under the covers) is just take a message from Thunderbird and try to
send it through the same Hotmail Web interface you would use if you
logged on yourself.  The Webmail extensions cannot make Hotmail behave
any differently from the way it would if you logged on via the Web.
These extensions are stuck with the same defaults you get on the Web
interface and the message goes out in the the same default way - in
this case Rich Text.

This is the only thread I can recall in my years of working with these
extensions to be requesting the ability to force plain text through a
Webmail service while many threads complain of the inability to send
embedded images etc.  Since most of us have the ability to send plain
text through other services (such as our ISP) I (speaking just for
myself) am reluctant to encourage the Webmail Author to devote any
effort to the delivery of plain text when it would appear to be
required by a very tiny number of users of these extensions.  The
effort to just keep these extensions going in the face of the frequent
changes in the Webmail services is already more than we should expect
of the provider of these extensions.

On Dec 10, 3:26 pm, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just ran into this problem today sending to a mailing list.  I ended
> up having to use my ISP SMTP server.  I don't see any options on the
> live website to change the default to be plain text.  It would be nice
> to be able to set it in the extension.
>
> On Dec 10, 9:15 am, ArcSight <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Well, actually I just received "negative vibes" when I switch to
> > WebDav mode, so it effectively doesn't work for my account. I getting
> > off my head now, there must be some way I could send justplain-text.
> > There isn't a way I can change the default format of sent messages
> > from Live Mail website? In person, I mean. I know the extension is
> > almost a browser, I have a huge programming background, by the way.
> > What I don't have really is time. If you say we could change thetext
> > format from the New Mail option then It could be some simple such as
> > running a sniffer and checking what it sends to the site, then come
> > onto the extension and implementing the same based on the SMTP
> > preferences of the extension, I'm wrong? But there has to be a better
> > and less time-consuming way...
>
> > On Dec 9, 1:54 pm, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Just sent myself a test mail from the website in richtext. Apart from
> > > the obvious address differences, the headers look just like your mail.
>
> > > ArcSight wrote:
> > > > I just tried the address-book stuff, but doesn't work for me.
>
> > > > Below is a stripped copy of the failure message I received.
>
> > > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ******.
> > > > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> > > > addresses.
> > > > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
> > > > <******>:
> > > > *****-reject: fatal: Sorry, I don't accept messages of MIME Content-
> > > > Type 'multipart/alternative' (#5.2.3)
>
> > > > --- Below this line is a copy of the message.
>
> > > > Return-Path: <********>
> > > > Received: (***** 13962 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2008 18:15:08
> > > > -0000
> > > > Received: from ********** ( ******** )
> > > >   by ******** with SMTP; 9 Dec 2008 18:15:08 -0000
> > > > Received: (qmail 32413 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2008 17:54:57 -0000
> > > > Received: (qmail 32409 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2008 17:54:57
> > > > -0000
> > > > Received: from ********** (*************)
> > > >   by ************** with SMTP; 9 Dec 2008 17:54:57 -0000
> > > > Received: from bay0-omc3-s2.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc3-
> > > > s2.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.202])
> > > >    by ****************** (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mB9HvTdX023582
> > > >    for <***************************>; Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:57:29 -0700
> > > > Received: from BAY106-W19 ([65.54.161.119]) by bay0-omc3-
> > > > s2.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
> > > >     Tue, 9 Dec 2008 09:53:04 -0800
> > > > Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> > > > Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> > > >    boundary="_d83e0924-9487-4a65-9cd9-43aff09422b1_"
> > > > X-Originating-IP: [***************]
> > > > From: *************************
> > > > To: <********************>
> > > > Subject: ************************
> > > > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:53:04 -0600
> > > > Importance: Normal
> > > > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > > > X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Dec 2008 17:53:04.0629 (UTC) FILETIME=
> > > > [FC61BA50:01C95A26]
>
> > > > --_d83e0924-9487-4a65-9cd9-43aff09422b1_
> > > > Content-Type:text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> > > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> > > > .....
>
> > > > What do you I need to enable dav on my hotmail account? Is it possible
> > > > to do so? Then how?
>
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > > > No virus found in this incoming message.
> > > > Checked by AVG -http://www.avg.com
> > > > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.15/1839 - Release Date: 
> > > > 12/9/2008 9:59 AM
>
> > > --
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