On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:56:52 am Duncan wrote: > Please can the HTML. There's a reason (security, respect for those > who have plain text clients) pan doesn't do HTML.
That's a bogus argument. The poster's message contained a perfectly valid, readable, secure plain text message attachment. If he was sending HTML mail without a plain text body, then I would agree with your criticism 100%. But that's not what happened. He did the right thing: plain text for those who don't trust Yahoo or have a plain text client, and HTML for those who want the "Rich Text experience". If Pan doesn't want to render the HTML attachment as HTML (a wise choice) there's no reason for it to run the plain text message and the HTML message together. That's just crazy, and it suggests either lousy programming or dumb insolence. Since Charles isn't a lousy programmer, I'm going with dumb insolence: rather than doing the right thing, he's chosen to deliberately be inconvenient for people who send HTML mail. Except it's actually inconvenient for *everyone*, and makes Pan look stupid. If Pan is not going to render the HTML (as I said, a wise choice) then the right thing to do is to treat it like any other attachment it doesn't render. It didn't take me long to find a message on another newsgroup with this: Attachment not shown: MIME type application/x-pkcs7-signature; filename smime.p7s Why does Pan not do this? Attachment not shown: MIME type text/html; filename <unnamed> The KDE newsreader, knode, does the right thing. It's time Pan entered the 1990s and did too. Duncan, it's time for you to move on. This battle was lost ten years ago. In the absence of a widely supported "Rich Text" format for email without the disadvantages of HTML, complaining about HTML attachments when the email includes a perfectly valid plain text body is like one of those curmudgeonly old men complaining about those young whipper-snappers and their "Walkmen". -- Steven _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
