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Re: aol html & real server

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Subject: Re: aol html & real server
From: Will Leshner <leshner at ljug dot com>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 08:19:50 -0800
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On Oct 26, 2003, at 8:09 AM, Adam Smith wrote:

On Oct 26, 2003, at 11:04 AM, Will Leshner wrote:

I use Mail. I can't find a setting that forces all messages to plain text. I'll keep hunting for it, though. But would that solve the digest problem?

I'm using Mail too, but I don't seem to have any difficulties. Could your mail server be mangling the posts?

And at the risk of overstating the obvious (and unhelpful), do people with mail apps that show HTML text at six points not also have the option to make the font bigger (a la Web browsers)? Mail does this.


Not my mail server. I use my own server and it is plain-old sendmail. Nothing fancy. As for making the font bigger, I do have the option of showing alternate styles. In fact, one reader was kind enough to point out the very useful cmd-[ and cmd-] combinations that cycles through all the available styles. But my vote would be for email never to contain HTML. 99% of all of the HTML email I get is spam. If I could configure my email server to reject any message containing HTML I would (actually, I probably could do that if I wanted to go mucky with sendmail). If I had a junk control on Mail that automatically marked any email with HTML as junk, I'd do that as well. But that's just me :)


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