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HTML mail...HTML mail...Posted Oct 13, 2003 10:50 UTC (Mon) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: E-mail filters not fooled by signed spam (News.com) by proski Parent article: E-mail filters not fooled by signed spam (News.com) I believe we should combat HTML e-mail because it's primarily used by spammers. If your friends write you in HTML, please explain them that they are helping spammers. I agree HTML mail is a bad idea, but getting rid of it is probably hopeless now, thanks to feature-happy e-mail client implementors. In too many mail clients it is the default, sometimes so that the default cannot be easily changed. Especially by technically unsophisticated friends or relatives... And I am not talking only about Outlook in its various incarnations. Some open-source mailers have the same flaw. For example, I have yet to find out how to tell Mozilla 1.0 "no, I don't ever want to send HTML mail to anyone, and if someone sends me one, I want to reply with plain text". Now it seems I have to use "options->format..." every time.
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HTML mail... Posted Oct 13, 2003 15:30 UTC (Mon) by kfiles (subscriber, #11628) [Link] In addition to setting mozilla's send format to convert to plaintext, I use the following prefs. This combo gets rid of pretty much every case of rich-formatted email, and makes the result as close to Mutt+Emacs as possible.
user_pref("mail.quoted_graphical", false);
// To get rid of the sending window
user_pref("mailnews.show_send_progress", false);
// Change the reply header
// 0 - No Reply-Text
// 1 - <Author> wrote: - Netscape 3.xx/4.xx style
// 2 - On <date> <author> wrote:
// 3 - user-defined string. Use the prefs below in conjuction with this.
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 3);
// If you set 3 for the pref above then you may set the following prefs.
// The end result will be <authorwrote><separator><ondate><colon>
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s wrote");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "on %s");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_separator", " ");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_colon", ":");
// This should change attached image and text files from inline to attachment.
user_pref("mail.content_disposition_type", 1);
// To change the color of the quote bar
// Replace #0000A0 with the colour of your choice.
user_pref("mail.citation_color", "#0000A0");
// Format=flowed prefs, RFC 2646
pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false);
user_pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", false);
pref("mail.display_struct", true);
pref("mail.send_struct", false);
--kirby
HTML mail... Posted Oct 13, 2003 15:37 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] If you are using Mozilla Mail, perhaps you should try Thunderbird. In Thunderbird, you select Tools->Account Settings->Composition & Addressing->Compose Messages in HTML Format. It should be similar in Mozilla.As for the default, see bug #115439. I'm sure there are other bugs filed for this issue, it's just the first one I could find.
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