[JDEV] HTML Mail

[Jamin W. Collins]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:31:38PM +0000, Matthias Wimmer wrote:

> Most of the time I send inline PGP mails. But why not sending PGP/MIME
> mails? The MIME headers of the text part flag this part as the part
> that should be displayed. If some client displays this part as an
> attachment, this client is not MIME compliant.

Quite right, and OE is not MIME compliant.

> With HTML(-only) mails it is something different. It is not necessary
> to support HTML to be MIME compliant and enabling HTML display in your
> mail reader also has some drawbacks if you want to fight spam.

Absolutely.  Comparing HTML mail and PGP MIME support is a case of
apples and oranges.  They are most certainly not the same type of thing.

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Jamin W. Collins

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