[Tutor] list mail formatting

[Dave Angel]

On 12/21/2011 08:29 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 07:57:33AM -0500, Dave Angel wrote:
>> On 12/21/2011 06:49 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
>>> Can I just ask why the majority of the mail on this list is in multipart/alternative and/or html format. It's driving me nuts trying to read this on my console. Is there not a requirement to use plain text as with most other technical mailing lists?
>>>
>>> I don't mean to moan and I know it's not a major issue but still.
>>>
>>> 	jamie.
>>> _
>> It's a common problem, in that most html formatting messes up the
>> indenting of an inline program segment.  But other than telling each
>> newcomer that has the latter problem, there's no enforcement, as far
>> as I know.
>>
>> if you're using Thunderbird, you can just tell it to
>> View->MessageBodyAs->Plain text.  I do that for all my email, and it
>> prevents much spam, makes Phishing more obvious, and probably avoids
>> some viruses.
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> DaveA
> I only use text MUA's. When using mutt is not such a problem but I spend a lot of time on a console using mail(1) and then it is a problem. i'm trying to put together a perl script to filter it all but it's just a little frustrating.
>
I have not seen any messages that would not display for me as plain 
text.  In this mode, thunderbird ignores the other version(s) of the 
message.  For some regular mail, I sometimes end up with a blank 
message, or one that says "to see the entire email, click on this 
link."  Those I generally just delete, unless I know the company, and am 
actually interested.

What I don't do is to try to extract just the text from the html stuff.



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DaveA