A few minutes after reading Lee's message below, I stumbled onto this 
passage in Mail Help (v1.3.3) > What's New in Mail?

Robust HTML rendering

Mail uses Safari's powerful HTML rendering engine to display messages 
in HTML format, so you see even sophisticated HTML formatting correctly 
in the message window. Also, your HTML email can be fully interactive.

That sounds to me like Mail could send real HTML mail, so I went one 
step further and searched Mail Help for HTML. No dice. It can display 
HTML messages you receive (or not, if you value your privacy), but 
there is not one word about composing or sending.

Hmm. Am I missing some subtle shading in technical definitions? Does 
the statement, "Your HTML email can be fully interactive" clearly 
differentiate between mail you receive and mail you send?

Alex Whitman


On Jan 29, 2004, at 8:45 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
> This is because Mail.app in X does not really send HTML mail, only 
> enriched mail.  <snip>  If you want to send bona fide HTML mail, use a 
> mailer like Mozilla.
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