Are there still people who can't receive HTML formatted emails? - GoFuckYourself.com

StuartD · 04-21-2005, 10:45 AM

Is there such thing as a program that still isn't capable of receiving html formatted emails? And if there is, does anyone use it?

Or do any of you have your email programs set to only receive text and not HTML?

slapass · 04-21-2005, 10:46 AM

Mine blocks are images so html looks like "x".

JFPdude · 04-21-2005, 10:47 AM

I run text only

Forkbeard · 04-21-2005, 10:53 AM

Like a lot of folks, I set mine to "text only" to disable all the tracking that folks do with their image loading stats.

StuartD · 04-21-2005, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by JFPdude

I run text only

how come? Aren't you missing out on a lot of emails that way?

pstation · 04-21-2005, 10:55 AM

I run text only as well, any message that doesnt include text also doesn't deserve to be read

Bigjohn · 04-21-2005, 10:59 AM

Mine allows the viewing of HTML but I have it set to text only. It DOES sift through the html and try and display any text it finds so I know the general context of the message, and I do have the option of clicking one button and seeing the HTML but I rarely do it unless I know exactly where the mail came from and what it is.

Too many exploits in the past and too much possiblility for future exploits to have it set to HTML all the time.

sexdwarf · 04-21-2005, 11:00 AM

it's not that people aren't capable of viewing html emails; alot of people (myself included) opt to view text only...it's safer... plus i hate getting emails from relatives who are still living in an aol world and all their emails have flower pattern backgrounds and hard to read yellow text...

JFPdude · 04-21-2005, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by NichePay - StuartD

how come? Aren't you missing out on a lot of emails that way?

Not any important ones. Only spam. When people send me an email work related it's always text.

Oh crap ... wait are there people making images and sending them to me to do work?

I better check on this.

borked · 04-21-2005, 11:30 AM

Mail in OSX displays html with the option for disabling images and embedded objects.

I still can't get my Horde webmail configured though to display html - it's still comes as unfomatted html code :grrrr:

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slapass Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Earth Posts: 14,625	Mine blocks are images so html looks like "x".

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JFPdude Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Mountains of Western North Carolina. Posts: 4,027	I run text only

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pstation Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: chicago Posts: 1,135	I run text only as well, any message that doesnt include text also doesn't deserve to be read

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Bigjohn Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Deep inside my mind Posts: 1,118	Mine allows the viewing of HTML but I have it set to text only. It DOES sift through the html and try and display any text it finds so I know the general context of the message, and I do have the option of clicking one button and seeing the HTML but I rarely do it unless I know exactly where the mail came from and what it is. Too many exploits in the past and too much possiblility for future exploits to have it set to HTML all the time.