Somehow, on 2/18/06, at 6:24 PM-0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chris) typed: >>I tend to agree about the similarities of Mailsmith and >>CE in various areas. Mailsmith does some things better, >>such as: >>better (actual) HTML handling, > >Just to clarify, as far as I know, MailSmith is a text only email >client, >just as Emailer is. > >The "better" handling comes, I believe, in the form of doing similar to >the HTML to Body and Strip script for CE. If no Plain Text portion of >the >email exists, you don't get a blank email with an HTML attachment as you >do in Emailer, instead, MailSmith converts the HTML to plain text and >uses it for the body of the email (stripping off the HTML code in the >process). > > >I could be mistaken on that issue, but in my testing, I have no yet run >into an email that MailSmith couldn't display as plain text. I admit I >have not really investigated it, but considering I get several a day in >Emailer that have HTML attachments, and I've not had one in MailSmith... >either I have had a massive coincidence that no effected emails have >arrived while using MailSmith, or it does as I mention above and simply >converts the HTML to plain text. > >-chris
It happens both ways. My take is that it gives a plain-text rendition when it can, and creates a local HTML page when it can't. Sometimes both. Occasionally, the HTML page renders strangely, but it works fine in the huge percentage of cases I've tried. I'm not entirely sure how it decides which thing to do. What I really like is the fact that it often gives me plain text, and gives me the option to look at a local version when it can't. That allows me to make the decision, based on my own reasons, whether or not I want to display the HTML. If I decide I want to, it is readily available. I usually don't, since the huge majority of HTML mail I receive is spam. And when I discard the spam, the attached local file that was created by Mailsmith is discarded as well. That's something that eMailer didn't handle very well. Roger ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
