On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 10:43 +0100, Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
On 03-Sep-09 12:21:54, Alex Scotton wrote:
When your writing a reply below the "To:" box next to the formating buttons is a link "« Plain Text" click it and it should just send plain text emails. At least thats been my understanding.
On the web, yes.. however on the GMail app for the Google phone, I can't find the option and in fact now I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist at all.. So yet again forced to hit my PC to mail you guys...
Could we do this the lazy way and enable HTML emails on the list ha ha.. why out of interest are they disabled anyway?..
For the following reason:
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Essentially Ted is saying that a text-only e-mail reader may not be able to process HTML and thus people may be left trying to read HTML.
Do we know if the Android Gmail application sends the same text as both plain and HTML as many clients do or does it just send HTML?
One idea would be to have incoming mail processed so any HTML part is dropped and the plain text version used instead. I am sure I have seen some other mailing list do this. Interestingly some SPAM senders use mail with text and HTML parts where the mime headers indicate the two parts are alternatives whereas in fact the text is reasonable text designed not to alert a filter and the HTML is the real advert.
Steve.