disabling Gmail HTML mail (was: f10dvd installs but won't boot)

Wed May 6 11:02:35 UTC 2009

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 09:57 -0700, jackson byers wrote:
>> I guess i need some info in gmail how not to do that.
>> in my gmail setting
>> Outgoing message encoding:      
>>   Use default text encoding for outgoing messages <<selected
>>   Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages
>> nothing here explicitly HTML
>> i will try the utf-8
> 
> UTF-8 is how the text is encoded, whether plain text or HTML, that's not
> the option you want.  It'll be some option about rich text, formatted
> text, or something else that sounds fancy.
> 
> Could someone who knows how to disable HTML gmail postings write a FAQ
> page about this that we could quickly point to?  I looked at the
> guidelines for this list (link below, in the list signature), which lead
> to another page about this sort of thing, but gmail wasn't one of the
> clients with information.

It's simple. Read this:
http://www.g04.com/misc/GmailTipsComplete.html#Tip-40

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Sam