Karl Larsen: >> I'm sorry Matthew Saltzman who is working on my Bug, and a guy who >> signs as "Tim" are using HTML email which my Thunderbird will not >> decode. This is because I have selected a big font which is easy for my >> old eyes to see. I can read all straight ascii of tiny font because my >> system blows it up to normal size. >> >> Just to see I printed Matt's email but it still comes out as garbage. View the source, don't go by a print test. There's other things that can mangle content. Matthew Saltzman: > Damn, am I really sending HTML? (Obviously, somebody other than Karl > will have to answer, if I am.) No, you're not (well, not that I've seen, now or before). And neither am I. Luckily it's not a default option in Evolution, and it's something I turn off when configuring any other mail clients, straight after I install them. If Karl gets his mail through a proxy, that might be the reason. I don't think this list offers an option to convert plain text to HTML, as some do, so I don't think the list could be the cause. I have noticed that Thunderbird treats all mail as HTML, and that's just one reason I don't use it. It never shows mail as it is, it always converts it to it's own system. That's why the > quote indicators appear differently than as the message sent them, text smileys get turned into graphics (optionally, thankfully), and things like source-code pastings can get mangled. -- (This box runs FC7, my others still run FC 4, 5, 6, & CentOS 5.0, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
