Re: more html issues

2004-07-05 Thread matt haines
>Mail client choices are pretty specific to each individual. What's good >for one may not be good for the next, and I'm just glad we have all the >choices we do have on the Mac platform. you know what? you're absolutely right! CTM didn't make it clear (at least i didn't catch on right away) that

Re: more html issues

2004-07-02 Thread Ben Kennedy
On 01 7 2004 at 3:12 pm -0400, matt haines wrote: >there's nothing sacred about text-only emails. they're fine normally, and >i use emails that way pretty regularly. but haven't you ever wanted to >underline a word? or perhaps make it bold? oh come on, i know you have! You don't know many of us

Re: more html issues

2004-07-02 Thread Michael Lewis
matt haines sez: >i'm glad i brought this up! i think. > You're not the first. You won't be the last. :) >the argument that PM might not be right for me if i want to use html is a >bit like saying "you're either for us or against us!" first off, i'm not >convinced i want to be a member of that '

Re: more html issues

2004-07-01 Thread matt haines
i'm glad i brought this up! i think. the argument that PM might not be right for me if i want to use html is a bit like saying "you're either for us or against us!" first off, i'm not convinced i want to be a member of that 'club'. it's an email client, not a way of life. it either suits my needs

Re: more html issues

2004-07-01 Thread Mikael Bystr
Jeffrey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >It is a 100% useful response. It doesn't solve the problem, so it's clearly not useful. > If you want HTML mail, PM is not the >client for you. What can be more clear and concise? I absolutely hate it >when non-newbies start whining about HTML. You've obviously

Re: more html issues (text/html)

2004-06-30 Thread Stephane Terreaux
Le 29/06/04 à 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >Stephane Terreaux wrote: > >>I receive from one person messages which source looks like this : >> >This is probably because the message contains both an HTML and plain text >parts, the text part being empty. PowerMail can't display both parts (or

Re: more html issues

2004-06-30 Thread Max Gossell
Wow -- aren't email lists great. Apart from issues they are set up to discuss, they are good for both whining and more aggressive behaviour, helping to get the accumulated stress ions from a bad day out of one's system. I hope you feel more relaxed now, Jeffrey, Max G At Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:58

Re: more html issues

2004-06-29 Thread cheshirekat
On Tue, Jun 29, 20048:42 AM, the following words from Wayne Brissette [EMAIL PROTECTED], emerged from a plethora of SPAM ... >Ben Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 stated: > > >>>HTML/XML mail or similar will sooner or later supersede the pure text >>>messages of today, no matte

RE: more html issues

2004-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Thorstad
> Jeffrey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > >If that's how you want your email, you probably need to > >use a different program > > This is not a useful response. I absolutely hate it when some > people respond to a problem like that. The user can't be > blaimed for the format of mail that is sent

Re: more html issues

2004-06-29 Thread Wayne Brissette
Ben Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 stated: >>HTML/XML mail or similar will sooner or later supersede the pure text >>messages of today, no matter what PM users think about it. > >Not without one helluva fight, it won't... (and we PM users are not >exclusive with this opinion

Re: more html issues

2004-06-29 Thread Wayne Brissette
Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 stated: >This is not useful with international umlauts. Mikael: The only way we have been able (we being my soon to be former employer) to make this work 100% of the time is by using UTF-8. Of course as Hiroaki will point out, UTF-8 is

Re: more html issues

2004-06-29 Thread Ben Kennedy
On 29 6 2004 at 7:22 am -0400, Mikael Byström wrote: >HTML/XML mail or similar will sooner or later supersede the pure text >messages of today, no matter what PM users think about it. Not without one helluva fight, it won't... (and we PM users are not exclusive with this opinion) Of course, the

Re: more html issues

2004-06-29 Thread Mikael Bystr
Jeffrey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >If that's how you want your email, you probably need to >use a different program This is not a useful response. I absolutely hate it when some people respond to a problem like that. The user can't be blaimed for the format of mail that is sent to him/her. If HT

Re: more html issues

2004-06-29 Thread Mikael Bystr
Ira, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >If the mail is coming through as plain text but with HTML >code interspersed, then you can select the text and choose reply to have >it quoted back. Just choosing reply will not quote the text. This is not useful with international umlauts. PM 5.0 | OS X 10.3.4 |

Re: more html issues

2004-06-29 Thread PowerMail Engineering
Stephane Terreaux wrote: >I receive from one person messages which source looks like this : > >Header : among other stuff, >Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > >Body : several lines of encoded data like this >PEZPTlQgZmFjZT0iRGVmYXVsdCBTYW5zIFNlcmlmLCBWZXJkYW5hLCBBcmlhbCwgSGVsdmV0aWNh > >PM displ

Re: more html issues

2004-06-28 Thread Stephane Terreaux
Le 28/06/04 à 13:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >- if you want to read an html encoded message, you can click onto the >little globe you will find with such messages at the bottom left: it will >present the message in your webbrowser I receive from one person messages which source looks like th

Re: more html issues

2004-06-28 Thread Max Gossell
You can also go to and get a script that cleans a mail from html, making it possible to answer it with quoted text. If you have BBEdit, I'd recommend "HTML Cleanup" by Wayne Brissette. If not, try "html CleanUP" by W. Eric Tyson. Max G At Mon, 28 Jun 20

Re: more html issues

2004-06-28 Thread Marlyse Comte
you have gotten used to html heavy email applications, that is all. powermail's strength is that it is text based and only delivers minimal html support: - you can change in preferences to receive html email as text, then you can reply (but will also have the ugly tags). - if you want to read an

RE: more html issues

2004-06-28 Thread Jeffrey Thorstad
, June 28, 2004 12:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: more html issues > > > so i've stumbled onto some other issues with PowerMail. > > - i can't select any text in an html-only email! and when i > hit reply, it doesn't quote anything. is PM suppos

more html issues

2004-06-28 Thread matt haines
so i've stumbled onto some other issues with PowerMail. - i can't select any text in an html-only email! and when i hit reply, it doesn't quote anything. is PM supposed to work that way? half the emails i get have some sort of formatting, even if it's just a default. i'm a little flabbergasted if