Kata Markon

["Wieland Willker" <willker AT chemie.uni-bremen.de>]

Well, I have received this mail as plain text. That means the web interface 
is ok.

Some email programs have the option "reply in the same format as sender" even 
if your
normal mailmode is "plain text". So, if one person starts with html and you 
have this
option on and simply hit reply, then you will create another html message. 
You must change
it back to "plain text" before, under "Format" or something!
Make sure that the format of the message you're sending is "plain text".

As always AOL users are on the wrong side:


How do I stop AOL 6 from sending HTML to the Internet?

Discussion

With the release of version 6.0 of its client software, AOL began to embrace
the use of full HTML in email. This included a controversial feature in the
sending of email to the Internet, in which messages were sent in a format 
known
as multipart/alternative, which uses MIME enclosures to include two copies of
every message: one in plain text, and one in HTML. Ideally, Internet email
programs should be designed to display the version that they understand.
HTML-compliant programs can display the HTML section, showing the formatting
that the original sender included with the message; while text-only programs
would only show the text section. Even HTML-enabled programs could be made to
allow their users to choose (or switch to) the text portion if they prefer
simplicity. However, some Internet email programs were never designed to
recognize these MIME sections, resulting in the recipient of such a message
seeing both the plain text and HTML versions of the email.

Solution


When communicating with Internet recipients who are not using an email program
capable of selecting which MIME section to view, an AOL 6.0 user can turn off
the HTML using the following steps:

1.. Change your global email preferences (only needs to be done once):
1.. Go to Keyword: Preferences (or choose Preferences from the Settings
menu on the AOL 6.0 toolbar).
2.. Click on Font, Text, & Graphics Preferences.
3.. Click on the Reset button at the bottom of the resulting window. Do not
make any changes in the Font Preferences area of the window.
4.. Click on the Save button.
2.. Change a specific email to plain text (must be done for every email):
1.. Compose and address the email as desired.
2.. Choose Select All from the Edit menu to highlight the entire
message.
3.. With the mouse arrow somewhere over the highlighted text, click the
Right mouse button, revealing a contextual menu (AKA Right-Click).
4.. Choose Normal from the Text menu.
5.. Taking care not to make any further changes to the message, send it.
Note that changing the text to normal will eliminate the "blue bar" quoted 
text
indicator, but will not remove some HTML elements of the quoted text. The
entire quoted section must be deleted (or simply not quoted in the first
place), followed by the re-entry of the text quoted manually, prior to 
changing
the text to normal. Changing the text to normal will also eliminate any styled
text that would have been seen by AOL recipients of the message, which cannot
be re-added. Testing also suggests that messages with hyperlinks cannot be
converted to normal text, requiring the prior removal of the link.
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Best wishes
    Wieland
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Wieland Willker, Bremen, Germany
mailto:willker AT chemie.uni-bremen.de
http://www.uni-bremen.de/~wie