On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 3:47 PM Dedeco Balaco <dedeco.bal...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

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> Em 06/09/2021 14:25, John Hasler escreveu:
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> Curt writes:
>
> I suggest you follow the earlier advice, and set Thunderbird
> to compose your email as plain text
>
> Or even as "normal" HTML.
>
> If it is trivial to me setting my mail manager to use the dark background
> i need, and to make it ignore the (usually default) background of color of
> all HTML messages, why the people in Debian User list cannot do it? I will
> not change my setting! I need it. Learn to deal with it. Things evolve.
> Being able to use *bold*, *italic*, *underscore* is a minimum of "new"
> things that help a lot to compose good messages. If Thunderbird has a
> problem when writing the automatic text messages, together with the
> composed HTML ones, this is a reason to **fix** it, not to never use
> anymore. I have installed another mail manager in my computer: but it is
> bad, pretty horrible. It does not show HTML messages. It does not compose
> HTML messages. And it is pretty counter intuitive to configure, in several
> parts. It seems handy, have nice things. But if you do not know them, or
> are not familiar enough with "something", to be able to understand it, you
> cannot use them. Its name is Claws Mail. I bet the most important people in
> this list love it. So, Thunderbird has some problems (and the HTML thing is
> not a problem to me), but it still the best mail manager for me.
>
This comes across as Rich Text Format, a precursor to Microsoft Word.
These files can be sent with a prefix of .rtf, and it is certainly
supported in LibreOffice Writer.  I am not sure how it works with email
lists, though.

Kenneth Parker

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