kmail: sending/receiving messages in HTML

[Benjamin Lee Solosy]

Hi everybody,

Just to clarify on my part:  I did not mean to imply that Ingo (or any other 
KDE developers, in particular) were anti-HTML mail.

Instead, I was simply referring to many other (generic) KMail users (on 
Usenet, etc.) who are very clearly anti-HTML mail.  They have written many 
messages specifically decrying HTML mail as "evil," etc.  : )

Here are just a few excerpts (among many):

From: Adam Short (ashort at idealnet.co.uk)
Subject: Re: HTML Mail? 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: 2000-11-23 04:26:57 PST 

Html emails are likewise the spawn of Satan. If you want to build a webpage,
build a webpage, if you want to send an email, send an email, for gods sake
don't do both! I get enough spam already, I don't need multicoloured, jazzy,
dancing spam as well! End rant!
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From: Jan Schaumann (jschauma at netmeister.org)
Subject: Re: HTML Mail
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux, alt.comp.mail.misc
Date: 2000-11-18 07:29:32 PST 

IMHO, HTML has no place in mail whatsoever - if I get html-mail, I
respond to the people asking them to not send me any more html-mail and
change their client to sent pure text only.
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From: Old Rocker (old.rocker at ntlworld.com)
Subject: Re: How to send HTML email with Kmail? 
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.kde, alt.os.linux
Date: 2002-11-21 16:25:23 PST 

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:16:32 +0000, Ryan wrote:
[snipped]
> Jeeze!! I couldn't believe all the HTML EMAIL IS EVIL comments I found
> when I tried to find an answer to this question in usenet archives.
[snipped]

Well it is and this is one of the reasons why KMail doesn't produce HTML
mail (and long may it continue).
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So, just to re-emphasize:  I did not mean to imply that any of the KMail 
developers were anti-HTML mail.  However, I have come across many other 
people (general KMail users) who do seem to be.

As you know, I am pro-HTML mail functionality.  But, of course, I certainly 
have no wish to make anybody else send or receive (render) HTML mail if 
he/she does not wish to do so.

Thanks again for your comments!

Benjamin 
A *very happy and proud* KDE user!  : )



On Friday 13 December 2002 12:42 am, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
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> Chris Kuhi wrote:
> > Don't mistake Ingo's answer to mean there is resistance to composing
> > HTML
> > messages, I think rather it has been a matter of priorities thusfar.
> > As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure I read in one of the related
> > mailing lists some of the other developers talking about how they
> > wanted to implement it; it might have been the 'make_it_cool'
> > developers, I'm not sure.
>
> That's correct.
>
> > Anyway, Kmail has been developing very quickly and there are a *lot*
> > of different things the developers are working on, and I think
> > implementing the display of HTML mails was somewhat easier than the
> > composing of them
> > would/will be.  Besides, it was neccessary in order to make some mails
> > even readable, whereas -- as you said -- you can be more expressive
> > when you write
> > an HTML mail, but you can still be expressive without.  Just a matter
> > of
> > priorities, like I said.  I don't think any of the developers are
> > actively against it, though any of them can feel free to correct me if
> > I'm wrong :-)
>
> Thanks for clarifing Chris!
>
> As we use the same HTML rendering engine as Konqueror viewing HTML
> messages was trivial. But there isn't a usable HTML message composer
> yet. And that's why composing HTML messages with KMail currently isn't
> possible. But one day KMail will support this.
>
> Regards,
> Ingo
>
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