[Gllug] Hotmail

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 06:37:11PM +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Friday 26 Mar 2004 2:33 pm, t.clarke wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to stop hotmail sending messages as html ?
> >
> > We have tried turning 'rich text' OFF, but this does not achieve the
> > required result, and we can find no other 'switch' on the hotmail web page
> > to play with !
>
> No.  "Hotmail" always appears to send html (big surprise there, as
> it's M$!).  All "Hotmail" received here gets either sent to
> /dev/null or (if it's from my brother) gets rendered as plain text.

I don't think this is 100% right.  I have a bunch of friends who for
better or worse use Hotmail accounts.  Of these, almost all send me
text emails which I can read fine in mutt.  One of them, however,
seems to have managed to munge his account so it always mails out in
HTML-only format.

Rich.

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