Re: [gentoo-user] maildrop and cleaning multipart MIME emails to plain text. (T-Moble tmomail.net service)

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 09 November 2009 01:04:55 Stroller wrote:
> I feel kinda ridiculous having to write such a long email - and
> perhaps spend a bunch more time writing scripts - to handle such a
> stupid thing. I guess the ridiculous thing is the cell company adding
> all this junk to a simple text message. But I can really imagine this
> formatting getting my goat enormously over time, and I don't want to
> get annoyed at my friend over such a trivial thing.


To my mind, the solution seems obvious:

Change your friend's behaviour, because you are unlikely to change T-Mobile.

Just tell her that her messages are an unreadable mess that no sane person on 
the planet can work with, and she should please use a different means of 
communicating with you. Real friends will understand.

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