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Subject:MIME/HTML settings
From:ghamburg
Date:Mon, 13 Apr 1998 20:17:29 -0700

I am using MS outlook & IE 4.0
-----Original Message-----
if someone could tell me what settings to use it would be great!!!!
From: Gary Shea <shea@GTSDESIGN.COM>
To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM <Vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: roof vent gasket & gas filters

>This message is to ghamburg, but as others are also frustrated
>with the problem, I thought I'd post this somewhat explanatory
>post as well as send it in pmail.
>
>M. GHamburg:
>
>I dunno if you are aware of this, but you are sending your mail
>as a MIME package that contains two versions, an html version
>and a plain-text version.  This is not a standard way to send mail,
>but Netscape (which I assume you're using) decided it would be
>really cool.  And I suppose it is, if you read mail in Netscape
>or some other html browser.
>
>I don't.
>
>It would be awfully nice if you'd change the settings in your
>browser so it sends mail the normal way.  In the meantime your
>messages go unread because the screen that comes up (see below)
>just tells me that I have a bunch of MIME stuff and do I want to fire up
>a MIME reader to look at it and who has time for that on the
>vanagon list???
>
>Thanks mon!
>
>        Gary
>
>On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, ghamburg wrote:
>
>>Parts/attachments:
>>   1   OK    ~6 lines  Text (charset: ISO-8859-1)
>>   2        ~23 lines  Text (charset: ISO-8859-1)
>>----------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>  [Part 1, Text/PLAIN (charset: ISO-8859-1 "Latin 1")  6 lines]
>>  [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part]
>>
>>
>>  [Part 2, Text/HTML (charset: ISO-8859-1 "Latin 1")  23 lines]
>>  [Cannot display this part. Press "V" then "S" to save in a file]
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>Gary Shea                                       shea@xmission.com
>Salt Lake City                      http://www.xmission.com/~shea
>

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