Hi, On 15 December 2013 05:38, eryksun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Walter Prins <wpr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Gmail matches the format of the sender. If I reply to a text format >> email, the reply is text format. If the original is HTML mail, it >> replies in HTML format. In that sense it talks back and respects the >> sender on their terms. Also, there is a drop down (right bottom) with >> which it's trivial to change from one format to the other. > > This is contrary to my experience. If I send a test message to myself > in rich text mode, Gmail's webmail composer remembers that setting the > next time I reply (i.e., the reply uses styled block quoting, > practically destined to be mangled as messages are quoted multiple > times through incompatible clients). This setting is apparently stored > in one's account and remembered across sessions. I can log out, remove > all Google cookies, and the choice of rich text persists in a new > session. But outside of a test message, I never use rich text. When I > reply it's always in plain text mode; the format of the original > message doesn't matter. Maybe it's more complicated than this, but I > can only speak from experience.
OK perhaps it remembers your preference for original emails sent by yourself as well, but for replies (which is what I was commenting on) my experience is as I described. To test it -- hit reply or reply-all on this message (which is text mode), and you'll see the reply format will be text mode, as indicated by the button bottom right. Then go and find a digest email or any other email originally sent to you as HTML/dual mode and hit reply -- you'll find the reply is in HTML mode by default. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor