Mozilla mail question

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

Susan Macchia <mailto:susan at smacchia.net> typed thusly on Thursday, January
09, 2003 9:14 AM:

> At my job most folks use MS Outlook for email and generally format their
> email in HTML.

A serious symptom of their single digit IQs.
 
> I use Mozilla connecting to the exchange server which is POP.  I like
> mozilla much better, with its color coding of the inbox, etc.  When I
> receive outlook html formatted email, it looks like plain text in
> mozilla.  This is a real problem because in lengthy conversations, it
> becomes much more difficult to follow since color coding and font changes
> may be used.  I have tried saving an Outlook mail that I've sent as html
> and then reading it with mozilla, and it looks fine.  This leads me to
> believe that the html produced by outlook is readable by mozilla.  When I
> read email that I've sent (formatted as html), it looks fine in both
> outlook and mozilla. 
> 
> I've searched the mozilla preferces over and over to see if there is some
> kind of setting, but don't see anything.  Does anyone have any idea what
> mozilla could be doing?
> 
> BTW, I tried Kmail and it has the same problem!  So it could be something
> in outlook?  Ideas of where I could start to look would be welcome.

If I could spell in French as well as I speak it I'd say the equivalent of
"What a concept!" (pronounced as: kell eeday).

Of course it is something in Outlook.  M$ *NEVER* follows the standards,
even of something as simple as HTML.

The simplest solution is to tell them that you only read text messages and
trash can anything in HTML.  However, that is not the easiest, since you'd
have to change their bad habits.

The easiest solution is to save the html message (displayed as text) to a
file as a text message and then change the extension to .html and open it
with any browser.

The solution they would prefer is to have you use Outhouse (like the rest of
the drones) and set your email to full html all the time.  Which, of course,
only works if you get the frontal lobotomy with it.

The funniest solution is to change the font to Greek and return the message
to them with a comment that it is all Greek to you.  Since they have all the
bells and whistles turned on in Outhouse they will see it as Greek
characters and it may take some of them days to realize what is wrong.

Hmm.  Perhaps I've been reading too much BOFH lately.


In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,

Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
Barbershop Bass Singer
Registered Linux User #154358
A Jester Unemployed