The greatest favor any mail software can do is to make proper use of the MIME MULTIPART/alternative node. This is why I love Thunderbird for my work email -- it properly both generates and reads MULTIPART/alternative, nearly always creating readable text for the TEXT/plain part and still getting the formatting right in the TEXT/html part.
(Having spent too much time at a previous job parsing bad MIME, I'm a stickler about good MIME. Thunderbird usually does good MIME.)
Better still would be a Thunderbird extension that could read and generate
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The greatest favor any mail software can do is to make proper use of the MIME MULTIPART/alternative node. This is why I love Thunderbird for my work email -- it properly both generates and reads MULTIPART/alternative, nearly always creating readable text for the TEXT/plain part and still getting the formatting right in the TEXT/html part.
(Having spent too much time at a previous job parsing bad MIME, I'm a stickler about good MIME. Thunderbird usually does good MIME.)
Better still would be a Thunderbird extension that could read and generate <a href"http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">markdown</a>...
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Date: 2005-10-28 03:21 pm (UTC)(Having spent too much time at a previous job parsing bad MIME, I'm a stickler about good MIME. Thunderbird usually does good MIME.)
Better still would be a Thunderbird extension that could read and generate
(Having spent too much time at a previous job parsing bad MIME, I'm a stickler about good MIME. Thunderbird usually does good MIME.)
Better still would be a Thunderbird extension that could read and generate <a href"http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">markdown</a>...