Holly Bostick wrote: >Dale schreef: > > > Speaking of settings, mail can be set to be sent as plain text by > >default in Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail as follows (the settings given are >for Thunderbird, but the Mozmail settings are very nearby in terms of >finding them, if not exactly the same): > >To set all outgoing mail to be composed as plain-text: > >Acount Preferences=>Composition and Addressing under the relevant >account=>uncheck "Compose messages using HTML format" > >Right underneath that, there is a checkbox dealing with quoting: > >If "When I respond, quote the original mail in my reply" is checked, use >the drop-down menu below it to change "Start my reply above the quoted >text" (which is default only because the word "above" comes >alphabetically before the word "below", it's not a judgement of >preference or usefulness) to either "Start my reply below the quoted >text", or "Select the quoted text" (if you want to trim first). > >Or uncheck the box entirely and quote nothing (though that's not a good >idea on this list, really). > >To set mail to this list only as plain-text, while leaving all others as >whatever you want: > >Preferences (not Account Oppions, regular Preferences)=> Composition; >under HTML and Send Options; Text Composition behaviour (not exact; I'm >translating from Dutch, as that's what my desktop is in, and my Dutch is >not perfect, which is why my desktop is in it :-) ), click the >"Advanced" button and go to the "Plain Text domains" tab. On this tab, >click the "Add" button, then in the field that comes up, enter > >lists.gentoo.org > >and hit OK. > >This marks all mail going to this domain (which covers all our mailing >lists) as only being able to receive plain-text mail. So no matter what >you compose it in, Mozilla Mail/Thunderbired will convert it to plain >text when sending (because you told it that that's the only format the >domain will accept , which is kinda true-- most mailing lists will >reject HTML mail outright, this one won't, but this ridiculously long >argument should be proof enough that the list doesn't like it). > >You can, of course, add any domains of other mailing lists you might be >on as well. > >Hope this is helpful to at least some of those floundering through this >thread; learn to use your programs, people, is all I can say. > >Holly > > Well I have to have HTML because I use email for a LOT more than just this list. I can't change the whole world just for one list. Sorry. I do have it set up to send both though so it should be compatable with either.
Later Dale I'm awake now, for a bit anyway. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
