[Tutor] list mail formatting

[Steven D'Aprano]

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.
                       ^^^^^^^

to which Dave replied:
> if you're using Thunderbird, 

I don't think Thunderbird runs as a mail client in the console :)

I normally use mutt at the console, and set it to automatically decode HTML 
emails using elinks. This seems to work for me, except for a regrettable 
tendency for mutt to prefer the HTML part to the plain text part when available.



-- 
Steven