Re: [Bulk] Re: Email encodings (was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros )

[Michael Mol]

On 03/15/2013 04:34 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> On 03/16/2013 04:06 AM, Mick wrote:
>> On Friday 15 Mar 2013 17:36:48 Kevin Chadwick wrote:
>>>>> From the headers of his email:
>>>>>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros
>>>>> References: <51418728.7020406@×××××.com>
>>>>> In-Reply-To: <51418728.7020406@×××××.com>
>>>>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>>>>
>>>>> It's perfectly compliant. You may want to correct your mail client to
>>>>> understand HTML.
>>>>>
>>>>> (Admittedly, it's unusual to see email clients send *only* text/html,
>>>>> rather than a multipart message with two different encodings.)
>>>> ROFL. It's called "me wrestling with thunderbird to try to remove html
>>>> formatting but failing".
>>> Compulsory html annoys me on Android (If only you could have proper
>>> programs like Nokias N9 had claws)
>>>
>>> Claws would mean you needn't bother and still have html to text by
>>> default and can even enable html plugins if desired (right way around).
>>
>> I understand that you can specify what sort of mail format you want to send
>> per email recipient, including of course <gentoo-user@l.g.o>, but I
>> don't have T'bird installed to check:
>>
>>   http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_(Thunderbird)
>>
>> HTH.
>
> I know about that. But it fails to work on compose windows opened by the
> thunderbird conversations plugin. Quotes there seem to be hard-quoted as
> HTML and no amount of fiddling converts those into plaintext quotes.

Reply created from conversation view in Thunderbird.

(Though I've got some configuration item set somewhere to only send in
plaintext; Enigmail complains that text/html emails don't always work
right with PGP signing.)