On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:22:45PM +0000, Sam Liddicott wrote: > Are these html-only emails or emails with an alternative text part that > Mutt is having problems with?
As far as I've founmutt handles alternative fine, if one of the alternatives is a text patr then it displays that and ignores the alternatives (actually, you can still get at them with 'v' if you really want). It's HTML-only it has problems with, and especially when the MIME headers are broken or missing as with a lot of the mail I get. The problem is that it still bulks the mail by a factor of lots (minimum worse than 2, maximum 5 or 10 in the case of stuff with loads of font changes), which impacts: bandwidth of the mail server bandwidth of recipients mailbox size on servers mailbox size in user stored mailboxes time to load mailboxes I accept that in some few cases HTML is useful. Emphasis, tables (please not pictures!), links. And if everyone and every mailer looked at the what they were sending and only sent in HTML when it were actually necessary then I wouldn't be bothered about it. But that's not the case, almost? every mailer is either 'on' or 'off' as a global setting so if HTML is allowed then everything comes through like that. Chris C _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list Fsfe-uk@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
