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Re: [trinity-users] KMail HTML replies!

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:43:31 -0500
> On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 21:26 -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 20:07 -0400, Katheryne Draven wrote:
>> >> Kmail is already capable of creating html emails as well as
>> displaying
>> >> html emails.
>> >> The default is simply off.  It can be activated in setting for full
>> on
>> >> use or as needed per email.
>> >>
>> >> I agree, html email is bad and its being abandoned by the majority
>> for
>> >> security sake.
>> >> However Tim is correct, the option should be there.,
>> >>
>> >> The most logical solution is to repeat what was done on 3.5.10, make
>> >> it available with off as the default.
>> >>
>> >> Off to sleep!
>> > <snip>
>> > That is true for composition but not replies.  Replies to HTML
>> formatted
>> > emails convert the original email to plain text discarding all
>> > formatting - John
>>
>> Really?  That's interesting--it means that Trinity already has some kind
>> of HTML editor in place.
>>
>> Hmmm.
>>
>> Tim
> <snip>
> That was the gist of the long thread where we thought Trinity was going
> to do the bounty based work to implement it.  There is rudimentary HTML
> composition available in Trinity KMail as far as I recall.  It is
> limited but it works.  The outcry on the KDE forums was that one could
> not reply to an HTML mail and retain its formatting.  The reply was
> always converted to plain text - John
>

Sorry, I was unaware of that feature.  My fault!  Trinity is so large that
I can easily lose track of things.... :-)

Tim