make thunderbird NOT show html

[David Boles]

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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