On Sunday, June 15, 2008, Kjell Olausson sent forth: >Bill Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>More and more e-mail is in html format. Hardcore PowerMail users say >>they don't want to be bothered with this mail, that most of it is spam >>anyway, but that's not true in my community. When html mail arrives, >>PowerMail wants you to make a choice... open your web browser to read >>it, download the images, or read it as plain text (which sometimes turns >>out to be a blank screen). Other mail programs assume you want to read >>it, unless it's spam. What's more, the procedure for forwarding an html >>message is even more complicated than simply reading it, as others have >>been discussing on this list. A few extra keystrokes for each and every >>bit of html mail adds up to a big waste of time for users who don't want >>to try to stem the tide of html mail by ignoring it. > >Well, I read html mail in PM without any keystrokes. It's just a setting >in the preferences. > >--
While I too prefer plain text e-mail I agree that more and more "legitimate" e-mail is now in HTML format. Unfortunately, PM doesn't really know what to do with it. Such e-mail might be readable in plain text but it also might result in a blank page. Extra steps are required to view this message by then having to invoke your browser. I am no longer sure I view this as a positive. Links and other actionable items in e-mail are another issue. Sometimes you have to double click to get the links to work in HTML e-mail. Other times you can CMD-click or CTRL-click (I forget which). Still other times the links aren't functional at all. In short, HTML e-mail is still a problem which is treated inconsistently. Version 6 will have to reconcile HTML e-mail once and for all, I think. -- Tim Lapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intel iMac OS 10.4.11 PowerMail 5.6.1 1 GB RAM 250 GB HD
