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Old December 16th 17, 02:29 AM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.mac.apps
Mayayana
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Default Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?


"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| If you add an inline image that is HTML. If you
|
| No.
|

Then maybe that's why your recipients get an
attachments. You can't do an inline image in plain text.
The image code is HTML.

| True, there will be a boundary string before and after any embedded
| attachment (image or otherwise). But I can send an email that goes
|
| text
| attachment
| more text
|
I've never seen that, but I guess there's no reason it
won't work. A plain text setting in the receiving client
will look for Content-Type of text/plain and a client set
to read HTML will look for text/html. I don't think it
matters where those are.

| If you give me an email address (use a throwaway one if you're
| paranoid), I'll send you an example.

We've corresponded before. I wrote to you this
morning. (Or more like mid-afternoon your time.)

| No, I've looked at (even edited, occasionally) the raw data form of
| emails, and there's no HTML - or any other tag - in them.

If the section is marked with Contet-Type text/html
then it's HTML. Otherwise it's not. But HTML can be some
weird stuff. for instance, email sent from MS Word
typically includes all sorts of nonsense, made-up
tags starting with "mso-" that only mean something
if the recipient uses Outlook.

| Well, that's a dual-part email, since you included the plain text "for
| non-html readers" as well. (I'm pretty sure I've seen emails without the
| plain text version, i. e. HTML only.)

I get those occasionally. Mostly commercial
or spammy stuff. It's common courtesy to at
least include a text section that says something
like, "This email needs to be viewed as HTML",
to help people who see a blank email. But that's
become less common as 1) email is more often
commercial and 2) senders more often assume
the recipient is reading it as webmail.

It started out plain text. Then HTML was added.
Both were sent to accomodate people who couldn't
read HTML. Then HTML was phased out because
it's risky. Then webmail became popular and that
caused a resurgence of HTML, as more and more
people didn't even use real email clients.

Last week I was working for someone who does
software bug testing. She was complaining about
the ads she gets in her yahoo email. I asked her
why she didn't set it up for POP3 in a real email
program and why she didn't use at least a basic
HOSTS file. She'd never heard of either! I asked her
what she used to use for email before yahoo and
hotmail. She didn't remember.

The conversation came up because she'd emailed
me a webpage from Home Depot. What I saw, reading
as text-only, was a few lines of text and a lot of
space. She works for a software company but didn't
know enough to send a simple link. I realized she
lives in a world of assumed HTML, ads, linked images
and of course, web beacon spyware in her email. She
never noticed.


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