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HTML formatted mail

Posted Nov 29, 2008 3:58 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Evolution by drag
Parent article: GNOME 2.24.2 released

(keep in mind that html-formatted email is a swear-to-god internet standard)

I almost never see HTML-formatted mail. I suppose I get sent quite a bit of it, but luckily almost all mail clients that send HTML mail send it as multipart/alternative with a corresponding text/plain part. My mail server notices this, strips out the text/html, and everything is tickety-boo. Plus my mail archive is less than half the size it would be otherwise.


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HTML formatted mail

Posted Nov 29, 2008 7:59 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

The biggest reason I use html text is for emails from grandma. :)

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