On 2024-02-16 10:06, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-devel wrote:
His email looks good to me. Much easier to see code with formatting.
Who doesn't have email clients with HTML support these days? I can't
imagine how old your system must be to not have this.
I don't have HTML support in my mail program. My mail program is text
based.
HTML in mail is for 99.99% of cases a waste of bandwidth. I care about
the content of a message, not about the markup.
@Michael - thanks, I'm sure there are others, possibly having HTML
support but still preferring plain text e-mails for various reasons.
Since I triggered this discussion, I'd like to stop it before it evolves
to a lengthy discussion about something which is not on topic on this
list - if somebody feels a necessity to continue, fpc-other is the right
place. Anyway - the particular message of the original poster was
broken, possibly as a result of the mailing list processor adding the
usual footer to it (I cannot check the culprit easily and I don't intend
to try doing it) resulting in issues even with rather up to date e-mail
clients supporting HTML. In particular, there was an empty plain text
section in the e-mail containing just the footer. When responding to it
with a very up to date mobile e-mail client (obviously supporting HTML
e-mails), the original message was not quoted, because the client
preferred the plain text version (which is a very reasonable default,
especially on a mobile device). When displaying the message in another
client (open-source webmailer, obviously also supporting HTML e-mails),
parts of the message were displayed mixed with the footer.
As a moderator of this list, I _recommend_ everybody to use plain-text
e-mails, or at least to configure the e-mail client to send both
plain-text and HTML version of the outgoing messages. It isn't a strict
requirement, but please understand that doing otherwise may result in
issues.
Thanks
Tomas
(one of FPC mailing list moderators)
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