On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Saswata Banerjee & Associates spake thusly:
support. However, that does not make my html mails unreadable. What the software does is to read the html tags, converts it into a relavent text format.
Surely there must be such functions already available for text based email clients in linux also.
:) There are.
I use Gnus. It is the most powerful email client in the whole goddamn universe. It can do anything you can conceive of.
But that is not the point. Plain text email because : -------------------------- #1. Email /was/ supposed to be plain text. Every thing else is a mime part. #2. Reading plain text email is very easy on the eyes. Believe me, I deal with a few hundred mails a day. #3. Most gurus have been using email since long -- they prefer email in plain text. They have deviced nice little ways of making plain text email even nicer. I for one trust their wisdom. They have seen it all. :-) #4. New technology does not necessarily mean you discard older stuff which is existing and is excellent for a job. #5. After all what is the purpose of our list ? To show your HTML skills ? To show what bgcolor I prefer ? How does HTML add value is completely beyond me.