Re: HTML Mail for PHYS-L: Pros/Cons

[Rick Tarara <rtarara@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

Is this true of the NAU server regardless of the header settings?  I just
followed Dan's instructions and reset my options from the 'short' header
option to the 'full'.  I won't know if there is a difference unless a HTML
post comes through the listserver.  I could read your sample file just
fine--using Outlook Express.

Rick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Craigen" <dcc@ESCAPE.CA>
> Different programs handle HTML mail differently.  The server at nau.edu
> breaks off the part of the header that says
> Content-type: Text/HTML;
> and puts it with the body of the message.  This *should* prevent a mail
> reader from treating the message as HTML as a reader could conceivably
> deliberately type this into the message body as I just did without
> intending the message to be treated as HTML.
>
> Perhaps Eudora has a clever way around all this, perhaps they simply
> treat tags as HTML regardless of the header so that for example <b>this
> would appear bold</b>.