When I wrote,
T > However, Outlook Express can be set once and for all to send plain text
T> except on messages where the sender specifically selects rich text or
T> adds an attachment or stationery.
John Levine replied,
L> That's mostly true, although I have had lots of multipart/crud mail show
L> up from people who swear they set all their Outlook or OE settings to
L> plain text.
It's entirely true, but there are several settings that have to be changed
from their defaults. Likely they didn't get them all. For example, there
is one for sending replies in the same rich/plain selection as the message
being answered, which overrides the basic rich/plain selection. If you
change the latter to plain text but leave the former at imitating the
message you're answering, you'll answer HTML with HTML.
L> My advice for people using AOL is to install Netscape 6.1. It's a much
L> nicer mail program than the one built into AOL and is much less
L> enthusiastic about HTML.
Does Netscape have some special hook into AOL mail (it might, just as OE
does for Hotmail), or is there some other email provider to whom you refer
them?
