[Evolution] Replying to HTML formatted emails

[Norman P. B. Joseph]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 11:34, Pete Biggs wrote:
> I don't like HTML emails, so I have my default set to not send mail
> using HTML.  However, I'm not so anti-HTML mail that I won't deal with
> mail that people send me in HTML!  Consequently, sometimes I have to
> reply to it.  Now some of the mail I get is from people like Ebay and
> the formatting of their automatically generated HTML email is full of
> tables - but when I reply to it the *text* in the composer still retains
> the table structure.  This makes it very difficult to edit because when
> you add something below some text in a table, it gets inserted into the
> table and appears as *quoted* text, not new text.

My default composing style is text.  Yet when I reply to an
HTML-formatted message, even though the reply window opens up in "text"
mode, I can choose "Format -> HTML" from the drop-down menu, and the
quoted message appears properly formatted again.  Try it.


> 
> What is extra annoying, is that the email comes as multi-part text &
> HTML, so there is no reason why the text part couldn't be used for the
> reply - except there is no option to choose what to include in the
> reply.

> I suppose a related issue is that there is no way of choosing which part
> of a multi-part email is displayed - so even if there is a text part to
> the email, I can only see the HTML part.
> 
> Is there any way around these things?

No comment.  Maybe something for the wishlist?

-norm


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