[Users] I hate HTML mail; but...

[Pierre Fortin]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:29:27 +0100 higuita wrote:

>On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 12:33:23 -0400, Pierre Fortin <pf at pfortin.com> wrote:
>(...)
>> Forward as Attachment:  what the text looks like is only visible to the
>> recipient; but it looks fine -- just as it does when the text version
>> is displayed on the original message.
>> 
>> So this begs the question:  does Forward use a different code segment?
>
>	Forward as attach will not touch the original mail, it will just
>be attached to your email and the recipient email client will display it
>just like it received the email itself.
>
>	Normal forward will take the text and put it on your composing
>window... as it doesnt support html, it will show only the text
>version of the email or the striped html version, if there is no text
>version.

[Re-inserting text from original post]
Normal Forward:  everything is wrapped together, only table tags provide
any separation -- just a new line.

This was the main point in my query -- Forward as attachment displays the
text with whitespace; but normal Forward deletes all the whitespace,
making the non-html forwarded message difficult to read.  I prefer to use
normal Forward to strip the HTML crap; but that is the only mode where the
whitespace destroys the appearance.  Hence my query about "different code
segment?"...

>	Anyway, you dont need html to reply, if you really need the
>original html version, forward as attach or reply and attach the 
>old email.

In a short, simple message, I usually normal Forward and manually add
the whitespace back in; but that really, really sucks on longer messages.

>	The only occasion i do miss html is when i need to correct
>a table sent via html... small ones one can fake with text, but
>bigger ones are harder.

Similar issue...  :)

>higuita

Thanks for responding,
Pierre