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

[Doug Craigen <dcc@ESCAPE.CA>]

Rick Tarara wrote:
> 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.

I haven't experimented with the header settings before so I don't know.
I've just changed mine too, so I'll see.  I've set the headers to full
and the subscription type to html.  I'll see how much difference this
makes.

I assume the sample file you refer to is the one sent by the cgi script
I posted separately.

> 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>.

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