make thunderbird NOT show html
David Boles
dgboles at gmail.com
Sat Jun 7 01:07:33 UTC 2008
Roger Heflin wrote:
> David Boles wrote:
>> Roger Heflin wrote:
>>> David Boles wrote:
>>>> Roger Heflin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Mike Wright
>>>>> <mike.wright at mailinator.com <mailto:mike.wright at mailinator.com>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems that there are many clueless people who could never
>>>>> write a
>>>>> web page but seem to feel more than qualified to send html
>>>>> mail. I
>>>>> am tired of squinting at itty bitty fonts that are rendered by
>>>>> Thunderbird whenever it displays html email. (List denizens,
>>>>> please
>>>>> note: html mail gets an instant delete here; you will receive no
>>>>> help from me.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anybody know how to make Thunderbird display only the
>>>>> text/plain portion of multipart email?
>>>>>
>>>>> I've set up a filter to delete email with the header
>>>>> "Content-Type:
>>>>> text/html" but that only catches some of it.
>>>>>
>>>>> A hearty toast to whomever can solve this one.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe:
>>>>>
>>>>> view -> message body as -> plain text
>>>>>
>>>>> And that bad news for us is those clueless people are developers
>>>>> that develop email programs and really don't have a clue what they
>>>>> are doing, but certainly think they do.
>>>>>
>>>>> Roger
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Roger are you aware that your email is composed in rich text
>>>> formating? Which is as annoying as html. ;-)
>>>>
>>> Sorry about that.
>>>
>>> I used Google's webmail interface for that message, and I checked I
>>> cannot see any option in the "settings" to do it any other way (at
>>> least all of the time), it kind of looks like you need to hit plain
>>> text on a given reply email, and it kind of looks like once you hit
>>> plain text (or rich formatting) on any one message it stays that way
>>> for all later reply (not exactly how one would have expected the
>>> interface to act-or where one would have expected the option to be,
>>> and it should still be in settings as that is were it actually
>>> belongs for a what appears to be a permanent setting).
>>>
>>> This one should not be RTF or HTML, I sent it from thunderbird and I
>>> am 99% sure it is setup to only send plain text.
>>>
>>> Roger
>>
>>
>> You did see the ;-) in there correct?
>
> Yes, I did, I just agree with your statement about RTF.
>
>>
>> Gmail defaults the same way. It is the 'hard line' Linux zealots can
>> be upset. Most of us just move on.
>
> I am more annoyed that it was not in the settings like it should be, I
> always go into the settings and setup things like I want them, but it is
> hard to do when they don't put it in the settings, and hide it someplace
> else.
I do not now about Yahoo. My son uses Yahoo and his emails are RTF. I normally
don't see it because I have normally have TB set to plain text. But I have
several related business threads at the moment and, unfortunately the 'ladies'
sending the emails like colors and graphics. ;-)
> I wonder how many people actually use the extra formatting for anything
> actually useful. Typically in corporate email none of the extra crap is
> used for anything actually useful or often at all so is kind of
> pointless to even have, often when it is used it actually ends up doing
> something stupid (too small/large of a font, or setting foreground
> without setting the background or just the opposite), most of which
> actually make the message harder to get.
>
>>
>> You mentioned Yahoo and Thunderbird. There is (was) a TB extension
>> that would pop yahoo mail without paying the 'bucks' for the pop service.
>
> I have the Yahoo extension, it appears to work reasonably well.
>
> Roger
Good. There is always a solution to a problem. Usually the major problem is
finding the solution.
Have a good evening.
--
David
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