Re: Use Plain Text Viewer?

Thomas ML <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:21:28 +0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.the-bat.beta,gmane.mail.the-bat.user
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Hello Steven,

Thursday, June 26, 2025, 10:20:33 PM, you wrote:

> Is this choice on the VIEW menu supposed to do anything any more?

> I'm occasionally receiving emails from an Outlook user that crash TB!'s H=
TML viewer and today I remembered that I could switch to plain text viewing=
, so I tried it.

> Nothing changed.  Not. One. Single. Thing.  Except that the little image =
next to the menu item was rendered with a different background color, seemi=
ng to indicate that either the new or old color meant the item was selected.

> But, in either state, all of the messages I sampled still showed all of t=
he fonts, colors and formatting that I associate with fully formatted HTML =
email.  By that I mean that the messages had MULTIPLE fonts, MULTIPLE color=
s, MULTIPLE styles, and formatting like lists and indents, etc.  None of wh=
ich I expect once the formatting is stripped out.

> So, I ask again... is "Use Plain Text Viewer" implemented as anything oth=
er than a menu selection that shows whether you selected it or not but noth=
ing else?  If so, is there some configuration option that somehow overrides=
 it?  If there is, that seems like a mistake, since the plain text viewer s=
hould ALWAYS be a plain text viewer, for security and stability if no other=
 reason.

> Help?

I confirm that nothing happens in this version when clicking on View / Use =
plain text viewer. I will check on my home computer with the latest beta ve=
rsion, and I copying the beta list in for checking.

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Cheers,
Thomas.

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