Re: Re: Four questions and three observations

Vadim Zeitlin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mahogany.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:02:48 -0700 (Mountain Standard Time) Ed Vazquez <[email protected]> wrote:

EV> VZ> I think what you really want is to not show SentMail folder as having VZ> new mail in the tree, don't you? Because otherwise I simply don't
EV> VZ> understand what is the problem with having the messages as unread in it.
EV> 
EV> We'll have to agree to disagree on that issue.  I have had
EV> issues with M dealing with showing read/unread in the tree.

 This would be a bug and would need to be fixed.

EV> VZ> All pure-HTML messages like this go directly to Junk folder here...
EV> VZ> Outlook usually (I do believe that it does it by default) sends
EV> VZ> multipart/alternative messages, i.e. they contain both HTML and text
EV> VZ> parts.
EV> VZ> Sending pure HTML messages is just plain evil and I refuse to do
EV> VZ> anything to support this. Also, you already have the HTML viewer so you VZ> may view them if you really have to. But it would be much better to let VZ> the people sending you crap like this know that they can keep their
EV> VZ> precious HTML while still sending something readable in all mailers.
EV> 
EV> Gosh, I'm sorry to hear that you feel that way.  Though I
EV> personally don't care for HTML, RichText, or
EV> other-non-plain-text in e-mail, I'm not quite that vehement.

 Note that this vehemence is part of my personal junk filter, there is no
built-in discrimination against HTML messages in Mahogany.

EV> In an organization of over 10,000 individuals, run by the State,
EV> it is a tad impractical for me to attempt to mandate that
EV> _everyone_ configure for "Plain Text Only."  I really hope that
EV> you will have mercy and pity on those of us in corporate
EV> environments where we neither control nor can recommend making a
EV> global change of this magnitude.
EV> 
EV> In the meantime, it (very unfortunately) appears I will have to
EV> again begin researching alternative MUA's so that I can
EV> effectively communicate with my coworkers.

 I still don't understand what the problem is. If you need to read HTML
messages, just use the HTML viewer -- this is what it is for, after all.

 Regards,
VZ



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