[Gllug] WHY do my emals appear as multi-part & MIME format

Fri Oct 25 18:23:11 UTC 2002

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 19:06, Dennis Kersh wrote:
> Clear Day My question is why do MY emails appear on my screen in three formats when they arrive on list?
> The samples are in case they don't appear the same on your screens. 
> I am using Outlook Express with hotmail, if not that is it the settings on my computer. I hope my samples don't change on being reproduced here."Please reply in plain English os I can understand".
The later versions of Outlook send email in HTML by default.  On mailing
lists, this is considered quite rude.

I believe that Hotmail also sends email as HTML.

If you have a hunt around on the settings you may find the send settings
and change these to plain text.

There are some very good mail clients about such as mozilla
(Mozilla.org) that allow you to set different modes HTML / Plain text
for different email addresses.

A good reason not to use HTML is that the vast majority of emails do not
require any extra mark up.

I have seen MS clients bulk a 3k email to 30-50k.

Kind regards
Xander

> 
> Sample No. 1. The heading
> From: "Dennis Kersh" <denniskersh at hotmail.com>
> To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 00:36:30 +0100
> Subject: [Gllug] Wide eyed and innosent new members 21/10/02
> Reply-To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> 
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> 
> ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C27A2C.3B2C3DA0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000E_01C27A2C.3B2C3DA0"
> 
> ------=_NextPart_001_000E_01C27A2C.3B2C3DA0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="Windows-1252"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> Sample 2. 
> Clear DayFrom Dennis, Harrow Computer Club
> Hi all=20
> Thank you all for your quick replies. I have been reading your list for =
> the last few weeks.
> I did attend the Linux Expo and bought Debian GNU/Linux 3 disks1and 2 to =
> try at home but not until after 2nd Nov meeting.
> 
> Sample 3.  
> 
> ------=_NextPart_001_000E_01C27A2C.3B2C3DA0
> Content-Type: text/html;
> charset="Windows-1252"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE id=3DridTitle>Clear Day</TITLE>
> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
> charset=3Dwindows-1252"><BASE=20
> href=3D"file://C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft =
> Shared\Stationery\">
> <STYLE>BODY {
> MARGIN-TOP: 25px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 10px; COLOR: #0033cc; =
> FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica
> }
> </STYLE>
> 
> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2719.2200" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD>
> <BODY id=3DridBody bgColor=3D#ffffff=20
> background=3Dcid:000c01c27a23$d9570cc0$500efea9 at h0o8h1>
> <DIV>From Dennis, Harrow Computer Club</DIV>
> <DIV>Thank you all for your quick replies. I have been reading your list =
> for the=20
> last few weeks.</DIV>
> 
> Sample 4.
> <P> </P></BODY></HTML>
> 
> ------=_NextPart_001_000E_01C27A2C.3B2C3DA0--
> 
> ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C27A2C.3B2C3DA0
> Content-Type: image/jpeg;
> name="Clear Day Bkgrd.JPG"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-ID: <000c01c27a23$d9570cc0$500efea9 at h0o8h1>
> 
> /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEASABIAAD/7QVoUGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNA+0AAAAAABAASAAAAAEA
> AQBIAAAAAQABOEJJTQPzAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAAAAA4QklNBAoAAAAAAAEAADhCSU0nEAAAAAAACgAB
> AAAAAAAAAAI4QklNA/UAAAAAAEgAL2ZmAAEAbGZmAAYAAAAAAAEAL2ZmAAEAoZmaAAYAAAAAAAEA
> MgAAAAEAWgAAAAYAAAAAAAEANQAAAAEALQAAAAYAAAAAAAE4QklNA/gAAAAAAHAAAP//////////
> 
>         
> Dennis
> denniskersh at hotmail.com
> 
> 

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