Re: Paypal without HTML email
- From: "Amanda Angelika" <manic_mandy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:57:19 GMT
In news:Nzeqf.10722$5v1.4430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Zoe Brown <zoenaomibrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> "Amanda Angelika" <manic_mandy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:Uydqf.10709$5v1.2800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> In news:bogus-9FDD21.10005721122005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>> Jack Campin - bogus address <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
>>>>>>> I just made a Paypal payment for the first time. As result I
>>>>>>> got an immediate email about registration which I *think* is
>>>>>>> legit, but it's a scrambled mess of syntactically incorrect
>>>>>>> HTML that my mail program can make no sense of - the embedded
>>>>>>> URLs look plausible but there could be almost anything in there.
>>>>>>> Is there a way of persuading Paypal never to send me any HTML
>>>>>>> emails ever again, and to *resend* that introductory message
>>>>>>> in a plaintext format I can trust?
>>>>>> Does your e-mail prog not have this option .??
>>>>> *My* software is supposed to have an option to make *Paypal* not
>>>>> send me corrupt HTML email???
>>>> Why not use gmail (or googlemail)?
>>>
>>> You have the wrong end of the stick. The problem isn't with what
>>> I'm receiving, it's with what PayPal are sending. Any message that
>>> begins with <html><html> isn't off to a good start and it's downhill
>>> all the way from there. I could just paste the message into a
>>> browser window and it would render just fine - but I'd have no idea
>>> what was behind the links in the message. It's an *advantage* of
>>> my present mailer that it renders it to look like the garbage it is.
>>
>> Well the reason I suggested Google mail is because it reads HTML
>> without problems. If your email client is having problems with
>> rendering HTML and CSS it means it's out of date and probably needs
>> to be upgraded or replaced.
>> Upgrading is usually a good idea for security reasons in any case.
>
> That is not what to OP asked. Simple question, is there an option in
> Paypal to turn of HTML emails.
In the case of Paypal there is an option for that. But one doesn't always
have that choice
> Not all people want HTML emails.
But there are rational reasons for preferences of that type. The advantage
of plain text is software compatibility and the fact that computers can
read, monitor and store plain ASCII text messages better and easier than
more graphic rich formats such as HTML. This is sensible on Usenet and there
are very good reasons for favouring plain text in that situation. But such
issues don't apply to email because you don't really want to make it easy
for third parties to monitor your private email. In fact if you wanted to
make something almost totally secure you would use an encrypted bitmap
format and no plain text whatsoever. Mind only Terrorists, Spies and ETs
need go to those lengths :)
--
Amanda
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