Re: Formatting

["Quindo Ma" <quindo.ma@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Howard,

The reason for that lies in the buildup of emails, specifically in the way
it's encoded in the background by your mail program.

If you use the plain text emails, then this is one of the (for you)
invisible headers that get added to the mail. It basically tells other
programs how to handle the mail.
Content-Type: text/plain

Now with HTML Mails, this is what the program uses (amongst others that
specify more details) to say 'hello! this is more than just text'
Content-Type: multipart/alternative

Were you to edit the email source and fill in your html commands directly
into that part (what you see isn't the mail itself, it's merely the decoded
part of the html text in the background) then you would get exactly what you
want.
The problem you are most likely having, is that you are trying to insert
already html encoded text into a mail that itself too gets reencoded into
html, thus the translation.

To cut to the chase, you have basically 3 options open:
* Check to see if opera (I know you use that because of one of the other
details that gets sent as part of those invisible headers ;)) allows you to
edit the source of a mail, and insert your html commands there.
* Use a different email program like Mozilla / Thunderbird, or maybe, dunno,
eudora is one of the others that I can remember at the moment. I'm certain
that the mozilla clients allow you to edit the source, not sure about any
others. I'd suggest Outlook express, but there are too many bugs in that
program (and the IE engine) to make it a decent choice, unless you know what
your doing and how to get past those bugs.
* Don't try to use html commands in the emails itself, but format them
there.

Regards
Quin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Russell" <howardrussell2000@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Buffy Wants Willow List" <buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:37
Subject: Formatting


> Hi to Electronis Zappa, TheBear, and any others who send HTML encoded
messages,
> How do you do it?  When I try to send HTML commands, they get translated
into HTML.
> <p> becomes &lt;p&gt;
> &quot; becomes &amp;quot;
>
> Help!
>
> Thank you,
> Howard




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