Re: E-mail formating question

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1999


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 23085
interpreted = N
texte = >>I am having a problem with the formatting of response e-mail. When it comes >>in the formatting doesn't work right until I change all of the text to >>Courier 10. I have tried creating my e-mail text using courier, but it seems >>to get lost in the transmission. Any ideas as to how to lock the >>formatting in so that our customers get a nicely formatted reply. > >What email programs are your customers using? Every email package I've >used already uses a monospace font to display text.FYI, Eudora lets you use whatever typestyle is available on your Mac, it is not limited to monospaced typestyles ... and no matter what the MIME headers might try to tell Eudora to use, those headers can be overridden and therefore ignored simply by setting Eudora's preferences in the right way.The point I'm trying to make here is that there's nothing you can do about it if the end user decides to view his email messages with his own preferred typestyles ... so using
 tags or MIME headers (or any other technique for than matter) will never be 100% successful in forcing the end user to view his messages the way you want them to view those messages.One of these techniques may work sometimes, but not all the time ...Sincerely,Ken Grome





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  1. Re: E-mail formating question (Kenneth Grome 1999)
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>>I am having a problem with the formatting of response e-mail. When it comes >>in the formatting doesn't work right until I change all of the text to >>Courier 10. I have tried creating my e-mail text using courier, but it seems >>to get lost in the transmission. Any ideas as to how to lock the >>formatting in so that our customers get a nicely formatted reply. > >What email programs are your customers using? Every email package I've >used already uses a monospace font to display text.FYI, Eudora lets you use whatever typestyle is available on your Mac, it is not limited to monospaced typestyles ... and no matter what the MIME headers might try to tell Eudora to use, those headers can be overridden and therefore ignored simply by setting Eudora's preferences in the right way.The point I'm trying to make here is that there's nothing you can do about it if the end user decides to view his email messages with his own preferred typestyles ... so using
 tags or MIME headers (or any other technique for than matter) will never be 100% successful in forcing the end user to view his messages the way you want them to view those messages.One of these techniques may work sometimes, but not all the time ...Sincerely,Ken Grome



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