Jim Graham wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 02:32:59PM +1000, m...@raf.org wrote: > > m...@raf.org wrote: > > > > > Jim Graham wrote: > > > > > > > I'm not sure of the exact year, but somewhere around 1996--1997, I was > > > > using an e-mail markup language that was similar in some respects to > > > > html, but it wasn't html. It was limited to simple text markup such > > > > as bold, simple colors, *maybe* italic and underline (don't remember), > > > > and if I remeember correctly, not much else. > > > > > > > > Does anyone remember what that is (or was) called, and/or what the > > > > RFC for it is? I do remember that Mutt supported it (and it was one > > > > of the very few that did). > > > > it was probably text/richtext (not application/x-rtf). > > > > oops. i mean text/enriched. > > > > > the rfc is http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1523.txt > > I thought I remembered it having an FLA like HTML, only different. I > could be wrong, though...it's been a long time. And I did stumble across > text/enriched, and either my little test was broken, or Mutt no longer > supports it. Is it a dead RFC? > > Thanks, > --jim
according to wikipedia (no citation): As of 2012, enriched text remained almost unknown in e-mail traffic, while HTML e-mail is widely used. the latest rfc is rfc1896 from 1996 in the legacy stream. it sounds deadish. but my sister was using it with eudora3 until a few months ago (believe it or not). the last text/enriched email i have in my inbox was from 22 Apr 2009 (i started translated them automatically upon arrival to plain text so i probably received some since then) and mutt definitely still knows what it is and renders it sensibly. at least my Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15) on my ubuntu-11.04 system at home can render it but my Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) on a debian-6.0 system doesn't render it at all. that's odd. they have the same compile options but different patches. according to http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-5.html, mutt supports text/enriched internally so it should always work. cheers, raf
