[kdepim-users] KMail - Replying in HTML

[Richard Creighton]

On Sunday 08 August 2010 12:59:36 O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 08/08/2010 18:13,
Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 08 August 2010 14:40:48 Johannes Fichtinger
wrote:
> >> Am Sonntag, 8.
> > 
<snip>
> > 
> > if I compare opportunities
und threats of proper html support, there is
> > almost no disadvantage for
the single user but many advantages specially 
> > for corporate users. 
>
>> And btw, it is not the “programs who don't care 
> > about spewing their
junk 
> >> into everyone's email”, but it is still only the 
> > user, who
is responsible. 
> >> So, please don‘t argue for artificially limiting 
> >
the power of some tools 
> >> because of the stupidity of others. This is
done 
> > in the commercial world 
> >> anyhow far too much.
> > 
> > I
really do not understand
> > this.  KMail users in general do not want this.
 Other applications exist
> > that give you it.  Why do you insist on trying
to force it on us?
> 
> you are not getting it Anne-  noone is trying to
force YOU to use it but
> we are quite a few number of users who would like
to use this
> functionality. In KMail, not another app.
> 

Well said.   I
don't want to use Thunderbird or Google whatever, or a Web based app, Kmail
is a good e-mail client and getting better all the time, HOWEVER, to make
Kmail really useful, it needs to address the needs of old fogies like me
that mostly want and use E-mail for text (and to save increasingly expensive
(USPS )stamps) and at the same time, it needs to al;so serve the needs of
commercial/corporate users the NEED HTML to be more effective in their
business.    If they can't use KMail which is integrated into KDE, eg, the
PIM, calender, and other groupware tools, then KMail becomes an 'also-ran' 
application and degrades the viability of KDE itself.   

As you said,
NO-ONE is forced to use a feature but it is not good to force everyone to
NOT use it (by not providing it) just because a hard core of old fogies like
me don't use it.   

If the devs implement it with a *switch* to turn it off
but allow it to be turned on I wouldn't care a bit if it was even the
default just so IF I needed or wanted it on some occasion(s), I could turn
it on...just like the current ability to *create* a HTML message, or auto
acknowledge message receipts, or not, and other user selectable options,
either on a message by message basis, or as a default for a mail folder in
general.   I normally have the 'inbox' set to text only.   Certain trusted
correspondants have a filter set to move the message to another folder which
allows the display of HTML.   You could set up the same type of defaults for
the ability to reply in HTML without forcing anyone to violate their
rights/desires to never do so.

Richard

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