Re: Replaying to HTML emails in kind?
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: PhillipJones wrote: I agree Plain text looks awful and it doesn't stay a constant size one post might be readable the next will be so fine I after hit zoom 5 or 6 times just to get it legible, 1) If you don't like the font used for plain text, choose another: Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Fonts Select fonts for "Monospace" in the most common encodings. But see also: Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | Message Display ... Plain text messages (•) Fixed Width (o) Variable Width Select "Variable Width" if you prefer a proportional font. So for example, if you want your plain text messages to display in Mistral, have at it. 2) If they "don't stay a constant size," they're not plain text. You're probably displaying PT/HTML messages in HTML instead of plain text: View | Message Body As... And you always have the option of setting a minimum font size for HTML at Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Fonts I have all that set I am using Mono-spaced. -- Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it" http://www.phillipmjones.netmailto:pjones...@comcast.net ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Replaying to HTML emails in kind?
PhillipJones wrote: I agree Plain text looks awful and it doesn't stay a constant size one post might be readable the next will be so fine I after hit zoom 5 or 6 times just to get it legible, 1) If you don't like the font used for plain text, choose another: Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Fonts Select fonts for "Monospace" in the most common encodings. But see also: Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | Message Display ... Plain text messages (•) Fixed Width (o) Variable Width Select "Variable Width" if you prefer a proportional font. So for example, if you want your plain text messages to display in Mistral, have at it. 2) If they "don't stay a constant size," they're not plain text. You're probably displaying PT/HTML messages in HTML instead of plain text: View | Message Body As... And you always have the option of setting a minimum font size for HTML at Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Fonts -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Replaying to HTML emails in kind?
PhillipJones wrote: >> BIll Spikowski wrote: >>> That's the behavior I'd prefer -- it seems logical. However, on all my >>> computers, without the shift key, HTML gets converted to plain text, >>> which looks awful. I rather like Plain Text. At least it isn't the 24pt blue Comic Sans my old uncle uses - because *he* has vision problems and won't configure his own email program to use a size he can read. Instead, he foists it on all of his recipients. > I agree Plain text looks awful and it doesn't stay a constant size one > post might be readable the next will be so fine I after hit zoom 5 or 6 > times just to get it legible, If your *Plain Text* is not all the same size, you have not configured your mail program correctly. Mine is set to 12pt Monospace, and it *always* is exactly that. If yours changes, you are not reading in Plain Text. -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Replaying to HTML emails in kind?
Gordon Weast wrote: BIll Spikowski wrote: Daniel wrote: BIll Spikowski wrote: I dislike HTML e-mail and almost never voluntarily compose one in HTML, but it seems they're everywhere these days and I'm trying to adjust. When replying or forwarding an HTML email, is there any way to do so in kind automatically? I've learned to hold down the shift key before hitting "reply" or "forward," but still I forget every third or fourth time and have to go back and do it again to avoid the quoted material looking like garbage. Bill, I thought that if you replied to a "text" e-mail, your reply was also a "text" e-mail. Similarly, if you're replying to an HTML e-mail, your reply is in HTML. That's the behavior I'd prefer -- it seems logical. However, on all my computers, without the shift key, HTML gets converted to plain text, which looks awful. I agree Plain text looks awful and it doesn't stay a constant size one post might be readable the next will be so fine I after hit zoom 5 or 6 times just to get it legible, Unless you press the shift key, as you mention, which changes your reply to the opposite format. Have you had a look at Edit->Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups->Send Format to see if that might give you what you want?? Let me experiment. Right now I have that preference set to "send the message in both plain text and HTML" -- because none of the other options sounds closer to what I'm looking for. Also, because I've never figured out how Seamonkey supposedly knows whether my recipients are able to receive HTML -- I have no clue, so how could I instruct SM??? In the EDIT->'Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings' dialog, look at the 'Composition & Addressing' page for either your mail or newsgroups. The top checkbox is for 'Compose messages in HTML format'. If you check that, then just hitting reply will compose in HTML and hitting shift with reply will switch back to text, just the opposite of what you have now. In the Preferences dialog, you've already found the 'Send Format' page where you can select which one to actually send. In the address book, double click on the name of your chosen recipient. The dialog has a choice at the bottom for 'Prefers to receive messages formatted as:'. Select it there for each recipient. Not as clean as it could be, but then HTML is really a pig when it comes to taking network bandwidth. But then again, bandwidth seems to be pretty cheap these days, unless you're on a dial up... Personally, I default to edit in text and then give me a choice on how to send a message. Most of the formatting is just silly eye candy. Too much candy isn't good for you...In the EDIT->'Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings' dialog, look at the 'Composition & Addressing' page for either your mail or newsgroups. The top checkbox is for 'Compose messages in HTML format'. If you check that, then just hitting reply will compose in HTML and hitting shift with reply will switch back to text, just the opposite of what you have now. In the Preferences dialog, you've already found the 'Send Format' page where you can select which one to actually send. In the address book, double click on the name of your chosen recipient. The dialog has a choice at the bottom for 'Prefers to receive messages formatted as:'. Select it there for each recipient. Not as clean as it could be, but then HTML is really a pig when it comes to taking network bandwidth. But then again, bandwidth seems to be pretty cheap these days, unless you're on a dial up... Personally, I default to edit in text and then give me a choice on how to send a message. Most of the formatting is just silly eye candy. Too much candy isn't good for you... -- Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it" http://www.phillipmjones.netmailto:pjones...@comcast.net ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Replaying to HTML emails in kind?
Gordon Weast wrote: BIll Spikowski wrote: Daniel wrote: BIll Spikowski wrote: I dislike HTML e-mail and almost never voluntarily compose one in HTML, but it seems they're everywhere these days and I'm trying to adjust. When replying or forwarding an HTML email, is there any way to do so in kind automatically? I've learned to hold down the shift key before hitting "reply" or "forward," but still I forget every third or fourth time and have to go back and do it again to avoid the quoted material looking like garbage. Bill, I thought that if you replied to a "text" e-mail, your reply was also a "text" e-mail. Similarly, if you're replying to an HTML e-mail, your reply is in HTML. That's the behavior I'd prefer -- it seems logical. However, on all my computers, without the shift key, HTML gets converted to plain text, which looks awful. And I do have set to Fixed-width and to Large but doesn't make a bit of difference. Unless you press the shift key, as you mention, which changes your reply to the opposite format. Have you had a look at Edit->Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups->Send Format to see if that might give you what you want?? Let me experiment. Right now I have that preference set to "send the message in both plain text and HTML" -- because none of the other options sounds closer to what I'm looking for. Also, because I've never figured out how Seamonkey supposedly knows whether my recipients are able to receive HTML -- I have no clue, so how could I instruct SM??? In the EDIT->'Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings' dialog, look at the 'Composition & Addressing' page for either your mail or newsgroups. The top checkbox is for 'Compose messages in HTML format'. If you check that, then just hitting reply will compose in HTML and hitting shift with reply will switch back to text, just the opposite of what you have now. In the Preferences dialog, you've already found the 'Send Format' page where you can select which one to actually send. In the address book, double click on the name of your chosen recipient. The dialog has a choice at the bottom for 'Prefers to receive messages formatted as:'. Select it there for each recipient. Not as clean as it could be, but then HTML is really a pig when it comes to taking network bandwidth. But then again, bandwidth seems to be pretty cheap these days, unless you're on a dial up... Personally, I default to edit in text and then give me a choice on how to send a message. Most of the formatting is just silly eye candy. Too much candy isn't good for you...In the EDIT->'Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings' dialog, look at the 'Composition & Addressing' page for either your mail or newsgroups. The top checkbox is for 'Compose messages in HTML format'. If you check that, then just hitting reply will compose in HTML and hitting shift with reply will switch back to text, just the opposite of what you have now. In the Preferences dialog, you've already found the 'Send Format' page where you can select which one to actually send. In the address book, double click on the name of your chosen recipient. The dialog has a choice at the bottom for 'Prefers to receive messages formatted as:'. Select it there for each recipient. Not as clean as it could be, but then HTML is really a pig when it comes to taking network bandwidth. But then again, bandwidth seems to be pretty cheap these days, unless you're on a dial up... Personally, I default to edit in text and then give me a choice on how to send a message. Most of the formatting is just silly eye candy. Too much candy isn't good for you... -- Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it" http://www.phillipmjones.netmailto:pjones...@comcast.net ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Replaying to HTML emails in kind?
BIll Spikowski wrote: Daniel wrote: BIll Spikowski wrote: I dislike HTML e-mail and almost never voluntarily compose one in HTML, but it seems they're everywhere these days and I'm trying to adjust. When replying or forwarding an HTML email, is there any way to do so in kind automatically? I've learned to hold down the shift key before hitting "reply" or "forward," but still I forget every third or fourth time and have to go back and do it again to avoid the quoted material looking like garbage. Bill, I thought that if you replied to a "text" e-mail, your reply was also a "text" e-mail. Similarly, if you're replying to an HTML e-mail, your reply is in HTML. That's the behavior I'd prefer -- it seems logical. However, on all my computers, without the shift key, HTML gets converted to plain text, which looks awful. Unless you press the shift key, as you mention, which changes your reply to the opposite format. Have you had a look at Edit->Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups->Send Format to see if that might give you what you want?? Let me experiment. Right now I have that preference set to "send the message in both plain text and HTML" -- because none of the other options sounds closer to what I'm looking for. Also, because I've never figured out how Seamonkey supposedly knows whether my recipients are able to receive HTML -- I have no clue, so how could I instruct SM??? In the EDIT->'Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings' dialog, look at the 'Composition & Addressing' page for either your mail or newsgroups. The top checkbox is for 'Compose messages in HTML format'. If you check that, then just hitting reply will compose in HTML and hitting shift with reply will switch back to text, just the opposite of what you have now. In the Preferences dialog, you've already found the 'Send Format' page where you can select which one to actually send. In the address book, double click on the name of your chosen recipient. The dialog has a choice at the bottom for 'Prefers to receive messages formatted as:'. Select it there for each recipient. Not as clean as it could be, but then HTML is really a pig when it comes to taking network bandwidth. But then again, bandwidth seems to be pretty cheap these days, unless you're on a dial up... Personally, I default to edit in text and then give me a choice on how to send a message. Most of the formatting is just silly eye candy. Too much candy isn't good for you...In the EDIT->'Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings' dialog, look at the 'Composition & Addressing' page for either your mail or newsgroups. The top checkbox is for 'Compose messages in HTML format'. If you check that, then just hitting reply will compose in HTML and hitting shift with reply will switch back to text, just the opposite of what you have now. In the Preferences dialog, you've already found the 'Send Format' page where you can select which one to actually send. In the address book, double click on the name of your chosen recipient. The dialog has a choice at the bottom for 'Prefers to receive messages formatted as:'. Select it there for each recipient. Not as clean as it could be, but then HTML is really a pig when it comes to taking network bandwidth. But then again, bandwidth seems to be pretty cheap these days, unless you're on a dial up... Personally, I default to edit in text and then give me a choice on how to send a message. Most of the formatting is just silly eye candy. Too much candy isn't good for you... ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Replaying to HTML emails in kind?
Daniel wrote: > BIll Spikowski wrote: >> I dislike HTML e-mail and almost never voluntarily compose one in >> HTML, but it seems they're everywhere these days and I'm trying to adjust. >> >> When replying or forwarding an HTML email, is there any way to do so >> in kind automatically? I've learned to hold down the shift key before >> hitting "reply" or "forward," but still I forget every third or fourth >> time and have to go back and do it again to avoid the quoted material >> looking like garbage. > > Bill, I thought that if you replied to a "text" e-mail, your reply was > also a "text" e-mail. Similarly, if you're replying to an HTML e-mail, > your reply is in HTML. That's the behavior I'd prefer -- it seems logical. However, on all my computers, without the shift key, HTML gets converted to plain text, which looks awful. > Unless you press the shift key, as you mention, which changes your reply > to the opposite format. > > Have you had a look at Edit->Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups->Send Format > to see if that might give you what you want?? Let me experiment. Right now I have that preference set to "send the message in both plain text and HTML" -- because none of the other options sounds closer to what I'm looking for. Also, because I've never figured out how Seamonkey supposedly knows whether my recipients are able to receive HTML -- I have no clue, so how could I instruct SM??? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Replaying to HTML emails in kind?
BIll Spikowski wrote: I dislike HTML e-mail and almost never voluntarily compose one in HTML, but it seems they're everywhere these days and I'm trying to adjust. When replying or forwarding an HTML email, is there any way to do so in kind automatically? I've learned to hold down the shift key before hitting "reply" or "forward," but still I forget every third or fourth time and have to go back and do it again to avoid the quoted material looking like garbage. Bill, I thought that if you replied to a "text" e-mail, your reply was also a "text" e-mail. Similarly, if you're replying to an HTML e-mail, your reply is in HTML. Unless you press the shift key, as you mention, which changes your reply to the opposite format. Have you had a look at Edit->Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups->Send Format to see if that might give you what you want?? -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 SeaMonkey/2.18 Build identifier: 20130418192405 or User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.20 Build identifier: 20130709211044 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Replaying to HTML emails in kind?
I dislike HTML e-mail and almost never voluntarily compose one in HTML, but it seems they're everywhere these days and I'm trying to adjust. When replying or forwarding an HTML email, is there any way to do so in kind automatically? I've learned to hold down the shift key before hitting "reply" or "forward," but still I forget every third or fourth time and have to go back and do it again to avoid the quoted material looking like garbage. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
