Send as HTML or Plain-text

Andy writes in with a very handy tip for Mozilla Mail:

If you normally send e-mail as plain-text, but would like to occasionaly send in HTML format, then hold down the Shift key while clicking on the Compose or Reply button, this e-mail will now be in HTML edit format.

It works both ways as well. If you normally send e-mail as HTML, Shift-clicking on Compose will use the plain-text edit.

In a related note, always sending e-mail as HTML is wrong. So if you use Mozilla Mail, go to Edit | Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings, select the account, and uncheck Compose messages in HTML format. Thank you.

I wish Mozilla mail had an option to strip out all html from received messages and just show the plain-text version like The Bat! allows.

» posted by pinder on April 25, 2002 at 03:40 PM

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This has always worked in netscape mail.

# posted by darren

In a related note, always sending e-mail as HTML is wrong. So if you use Mozilla Mail, go to Edit | Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings, select the account, and uncheck Compose messages in HTML format. Thank you.

Why? As far as I know, a message containing just plain text will always be sent as plain text, regardless of whether or not HTML mail compose is used.

I wish Mozilla mail had an option to strip out all html from received messages and just show the plain-text version like The Bat! allows.

Isn't this fixed by bug 30888?

# posted by Alex Bishop

That "related note" comment was actually meant for Outlook people who always feel the need to send me simple 2 line emails as HTML. At least Mozilla Mail is a little smarter about sending plain text as plain text.

Also, thanks for letting me know about that bug fix. View | Message Body as | Plaintext works great! I was looking for the same setting in the preferences menu.

# posted by pinder

I believe, though I've never tried this, that you could do something like this with a userChrome.css file that targeted mail-type html stuff.

# posted by andrew wooldridge

>I wish Mozilla mail had an option to strip out all html from received messages and just show the plain-text version like The Bat! allows.

It does have that since few days. View > Message Body as > ...

# posted by Chucker

In RC1 under Windows, it seems to be the Ctrl key, not shift. At least I couldn't get it work with the Shift key.

# posted by davidboydca

Thanks, I needed just that... You're a life saver :)

# posted by Martin Mouritzen

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