Sorry for the OT, but this seems to be a concern for a number of people. I
don't use AOL, so I cannot vouch for its accuracy. Clearly, AOL does not
want this to be easy though...
AOL 6.0 Plain Text Email:
http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/#aol6html
How do I stop AOL 6 from sending HTML to the Internet?
Discussion
With the release of version 6.0 of its client software, AOL began to embrace
the use of full HTML in email (see FAQ item 8). This included a
controversial feature in the sending of email to the Internet, in which
messages were sent in a format known as multipart/alternative, which uses
MIME enclosures to include two copies of every message: one in plain text,
and one in HTML. Ideally, Internet email programs should be designed to
display the version that they understand. HTML-compliant programs can
display the HTML section, showing the formatting that the original sender
included with the message; while text-only programs would only show the text
section. Even HTML-enabled programs could be made to allow their users to
choose (or switch to) the text portion if they prefer simplicity. However,
some Internet email programs were never designed to recognize these MIME
sections, resulting in the recipient of such a message seeing both the plain
text and HTML versions of the email.
Solution
When communicating with Internet recipients who are not using an email
program capable of selecting which MIME section to view, an AOL 6.0 user can
turn off the HTML by taking the following steps exactly as described:
- Change your global email preferences (only needs to be done once):
- Go to Keyword: Preferences (or choose Preferences from the Settings menu
on the AOL 6.0 toolbar).
- Click on Font, Text, & Graphics Preferences.
- Click on the Reset button at the bottom of the resulting window. Do not
make any changes in the Font Preferences area of the window.
- Click on the Save button.
- Change a specific email to plain text (must be done for every email):
- Compose and address the email as desired.
- Choose Select All from the Edit menu to highlight the entire message.
- With the mouse arrow somewhere over the highlighted text, click the Right
mouse button, revealing a contextual menu (AKA Right-Click).
- Choose Normal from the Text menu.
- Taking care not to make any further changes to the message, send it.
Note that changing the text to normal will eliminate the "blue bar" quoted
text indicator, but will not remove some HTML elements of the quoted text.
The entire quoted section must be deleted (or simply not quoted in the first
place), followed by the re-entry of the text quoted manually, prior to
changing the text to normal. Changing the text to normal will also eliminate
any styled text that would have been seen by AOL recipients of the message,
which cannot be re-added. Testing also suggests that messages with
hyperlinks cannot be converted to normal text, requiring the prior removal
of the link.
If this process is unappealing, other options include reverting to a prior
version of AOL or using AOL Mail via the web.
(Thanks to Carpenma for identifying step two of the plain text solution.)
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