On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:27:11AM +0200, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
Frank Rubin wrote:
I have gone to great lengths to avoid creating any HTML in my postingsto this mailing list. To avoid HTML-style quoting, I am copying the postings myself, and inserting all of those greater-than signs by hand. I have avoided putting in any links because I have not found a way to suppress the anchor tags. I have not done any form of text emphasis other than using caps, used no colors, inserted no pictures or backgrounds, and given no email links. I don't see what I am doing that makes you see HTML in my posts.
I can't see any signs of HTML in these emails, other than line breaks,which are already in the emails when I receive them from the mailing list. If I manually removed the line breaks, then the gt-signs would no longer be along the left edge, but interspersed in the text. I don't think that would be desirable.
To be exact: your mails do contain plain text message. But they also contain a HTML copy of the message. Some mailers show only text version, some will internally convert text to HTML and render it for viewing, so you miss the difference. But as other noticed the line:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1121977411"
in the headers shows that it is not a plain mail. AFAIK nothing you type will turn of HTML mail (but you probably can add things like links which will disable text version). You need to find a configuration setting for your mailer to disable HTML.
And if you don't know how, you may take a look at http://www.expita.com/nomime.html, which contains detailed information on turning off HTML for many popular mailers. With a bit of luck, yours is listed there too, or at least it can give you some hint. Though, if your mailer can't even do standard quoting in replies, you might as well save yourself time and trouble and switch to a different mailer.
Emil Jerabek