In article <ebba9feb4d%Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Graeme Wall <Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not strictly limited to PopStar/Messenger, but they are the apps I
> use for email.
> Every so often I get emails from certain companies claiming that I
> can't read their email because my reader can't cope with messages in
> RTF or HTML or whatever. How do they know? Surely the message just
> gets sent to the server and waits for me to download using whatever
> comes to hand?
Yes. These emails contain (in theory) the same message content in
several forms, generally plain text and HTML.
Many email clients when presented with such a mail will attempt to
display the HTML version, and only if that fails display the plain text
version.
Knowing that, a lot of software sends a plain text version of the real
message that instead of containing the content in plain text just says
"If you can see this your client doesn't display HTML.".
The message is misleading.
--
Jeremy C B Nicoll, Edinburgh, Scotland - my opinions are my own.
.
Re: Plain text versus HTML email ... I don't think what you want can be done, in the HTML item you'd probably have something like an reference for the URL plus a text rendering for it as part of the link tags. ... In plain text that's used to form the plain text link. ... When it is read by a non-HTML email client it doesn't display the image but does display the clickable-link URL. ... (microsoft.public.outlook.program_addins)
Re: html fonts size ... and may not even display the way *you* intend due to differences ... In some environments, HTML won't display at ... realize others may prefer to view email in their own font face, size, ...plain text, which lets them view our messages the way they want. ... (microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage)
Re: Received email font is very small ... densities for the display....displaying HTML.... Well, the other way is to have your email client display the plain text version of the email instead, which will allow you to control the font face, size, and style in which it is displayed. ... There is a Preference choice between rich text and plain text; I choose rich text, because that was the old way to read and write exotic diacritics, but plain text is apparently adequate for that now. ... (comp.sys.mac.apps)
Re: Usenet image display ... Then, as others have posted, the problem is that you are set to read all messages in plain text, and the inline display cannot be shown since it uses richedit.dll to display the information in the preview pane. ... >I can not view attachments using O.E. 6 in newsgroups any longer. ... > I only want to view incomming messages in text, I never want to view> HTML... (microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress)
Re: Create Key ... Need Advice ... In particular, if your URL encodes the user ID separately from the hashed data, and the hash is used _only_ for validation, then that's probably good enough. ... email software take some of the HTML emaisl or not? ... But using it does address the failure of email clients failing to properly detect the end of the valid URL when sent by plain text. ... In any case, the main point is: if you are sending the URL as plain text, you have no control over how the email client may interpret it. ... (microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp)
