Re: Forwarding HTML emails

In message <be00215559.Richard@...>
          Richard Mellish <Richard@...> wrote:

> Richard Porter <ricp@...> said:

>> On 31 Jul 2021 Richard Mellish  wrote:

>>> Those of us who still prefer plain text emails are nowadays in a minority,
>>> with the world and his wife using HTML by default.

>>> MPro usually copes adequately with HTML-only emails, showing an
>>> approximation as text plus a pseudo-attachment of the HTML which you can
>>> view in a browser. But it gets messy when you need to forward one to other
>>> people. One option is to forward only the plain text, but any features of
>>> the HTML such as coloured or bold text, which might be significant, are
>>> lost and there are often spurious characters resulting from passage
>>> between OSs and incomplete handling of Unicode. Another option is to
>>> forward the whole thing, but the recipients then see an attachment called
>>> Email.htm, which some are suspicious of.

>>> How do others on here deal with it?

>> I normally just send the plain text part and delete the html part if
>> present. Some of the html is horrendous, often two orders of magnitude
>> larger than plain text. If we banned html messages excepting attached html
>> files the internet would be a great deal faster.

>> Many email clients and webmail systems make a complete mess of generating
>> plain text. I get a newsletter from the local council in which the text
>> part is a solid block with no paragraph separation at all. Some mailers
>> just send a cop-out text part - blank or just a link to a web site.

>> Worst of all are those that put html (usually an incomplete page) in the
>> text/plain part. If necessary I go to the html part and let Messenger Pro
>> do a much better job of converting it to plain text. It still leaves in
>> some escaped characters, zero width non-joiners, etc.

> I agree with all of that. To keep my original posting short if I didn't
> mentione another mess than I see occasionally, so I will mention it now.
> An emailshot has perfectly sensible content in the HTML part but whoever
> sends it out must be blissfully unaware of the plain text part, which
> contains a recycled out-of-date message, instructions intended for the
> person drafting the mailshot, or even complete twaddle.

One of the bank I am with does that, new HTML message but the text part is 
a previous message!



-- 
Chris Hughes

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