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RE: Mangling of mails

• Posted by thomas at columbus.rr.com Jan 23, 2003
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Well for one, HTML makes it easier to display some diagrams like tables
and also allows you to add inline images. It has the *potential* to a
lot more complicated (and possibly useful) things that HTML supports -
inline frames, videos, ActiveX - but those are unconventional, not
widely supported, and huge security flaws.

*sigh* In a perfect world. . .

~Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: jbrown1050 at hotpop.com [mailto:jbrown1050 at hotpop.com] 
Subject: Re: Mangling of mails



On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:38:12PM -0500, thomas at columbus.rr.com wrote:
> 
> > (Why someone wants to send both HTML and plain text version of an
> email
> is beyond me ...)
> 
> It's so that people with text-only e-mail viewers can still read the
> e-mail without all the garbage. I guess it's not working...
> 
> ~Tom
> 

But why have HTML emails in the first place?

For reference, Mutt can handle multipart emails fine, and I added an
entry
to the config file so I can read HTML emails (by converting to plain
text
first), however I haev a low bandwidth connection so I don't like
wasting
my bandwidth space like that.

<snip>

jbrown

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