[Nottingham] Re: HTML email composer

[David Aldred]

On Monday 20 Dec 2004 00:53, James Gibbon wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:07:52 +0000
>
> David Aldred <david at familyaldred.org.uk> wrote:
> > I'm talking to someone about Linux, and he's asked a specific question:
> > is there a Linux app which will allow him easily to create and send fully
> > HTML formatted email?
>
> I'm pretty sure Mozilla allows its user to compose HTML mail with
> links, colours, banner fonts, backgrounds and everything else in
> the unfortunate situation that he or she prefers it to plain text.

Thanks - Mozilla Thunderbird does seem to do what's needed.

Personally, I usually prefer plain text too, but this is one of the relatively 
few cases where I do think HTML has an advantage: being able to jump directly 
from the top of a lengthy email to any one of a number of identifiable 
sections is useful. 
-- 
David Aldred