Re: HTML Links on Evolution

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On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:05:48PM -0800, Scott Talbot wrote:
Well, I use Mutt.  I can read HTML mail just fine, though for lists like 
this, there really is no need for it.  HTML is just Windows dressing... 
and sometimes, most especially when I am emailing someone I wish to 
impress for some reason, I will use Evolution with an HTML signature 
block that includes a .gif of my signature.  Not necessary on a list, 
though.

> On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 16:53, Youssef Makki wrote:
> > Because some people like to use clients like Pine or mutt, I'd think
> > html email would look ugly. It also tends to make emails bloated, and is
> > the main reason why viruses spread on windows machines; not that it
> > affects most of us here, but still another reason to avoid it. Email was
> > intended to be in plaintext. Did I miss something?
> > 
>    Not much of this is true the "Bloat" you cite is rarely more than a <body> 
> </body> set of tags maybe a </bold> here or their hardly enough to cause much 
> grief.  As for viruses there was one virus transmitted by HTML that only affected 
> IE (go figure!).
> Really, as long as it is kept simple there isn't much disadvantage
> unless you want to argue for the folks using PINE or whatever.  Can you
> imagine people griping about the bandwith wasted on color tv, cause my
> Black & white works fine?
> 
> Maybe someone can grip about something better? as of now I'm out of this
> subject!
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 19:03, AMAZING POWERS OF OBSERVATION wrote:
> > >     why must we turn off html ? i like the way html works . 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 17:21, Scott Talbot wrote: 
> > > > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 14:55, Brittany wrote:
> > > > > sorry for the HTML mail.
> > > > > When i click on a link it doesn't pop-up and it does the same when i
> > > > > right click it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hope this help.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 22:03 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > > > > > Am Sa, den 06.03.2004 schrieb Brittany um 21:47:
> > > > > > > I'm having a hard time trying to find the settings of which the URL
> > > > > > > links that comes in that automatically gets transfer right onto to my
> > > > > > > web browser, Mozilla. 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Is their away besides having to do all of the extra copying and pasting?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 1) Please send plain text mail to the list, not html formatted.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 2) I do not understand your problem. You can right click on links inside
> > > > > > mails reading with Evolution and a new Mozilla instance will start up
> > > > > > accessing the link target.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Alexander
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > 	Brittany:
> > > > 
> > > > in Gnome clicking on a URL will activate the default browser which is
> > > > set in the Preferences->Preferred Applications app.
> > > > 
> > > > 	I'm not sure how it is different in KDE though
> > > > 
> > > > Scott
> > 
> 
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