Re: Use Plain Text Viewer?

Thomas Fernandez ML <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:44:24 +0700
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Hello Stevn and TBBETA,

On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:21:28 +0700 GMT (27/06/2025, 07:21 +0700 GMT),
Thomas ML 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 =
HTML viewer and today I remembered that I could switch to plain text viewin=
g, 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, seem=
ing to indicate that either the new or old color meant the item was selecte=
d.

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

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

>> Help?

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

I confirm no effect in 11.4.2.1 either.

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Cheers,
Thomas.

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