> On Monday 12 September 2011 20:07:02 John A. Sullivan III wrote: >> Sorry but as much as there are all kinds of technical and security >> reasons why this should not be done (which I wholeheartedly embrance and >> which is why KDE resisted for so long), the business case is >> overwhelming. Â KMail is a non-starter without it in many environments - > > sure, but why the heck should it (especially the kde 3.5.x version) be > a 'starter' in an ms-outlook-crap dominated environment ? > makes no sense, IMHO. > those who want/need things like that, for whatever reason, are surely > better > off with kde 4.x (which has even more 'ms-features' anyways) > > werner > We aim to provide our users with what they want. Philosophically there is no problem with adding HTML support (through an as-of-yet unknown technical means ;-))--in the TDE style of doing things there would be a configuration option to shut off the HTML reply feature. Also, I would be careful about bashing Microsoft in terms of the features offered. While I do not like Micro$oft, and I absolutely hate what they did to Windows over the past couple of releases, Windows 2000 and XP were workhorse operating systems that still do things that Linux can't. Tim