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Using mozilla. I got a friend that sends all this crap with smily faces
waving at you on pretty colourd paper. very fancy, but Im an old git
that likes to see text and all the other crap turned off. Where do I go
in mozilla to turn the **** off and just get plain text from this person
? shes got some snazy email program of other. bloody annoying it is

cheers

Trog wrote:

> Using mozilla. I got a friend that sends all this crap with smily
> faces
> waving at you on pretty colourd paper. very fancy, but Im an old git
> that likes to see text and all the other crap turned off. Where do I
> go in mozilla to turn the **** off and just get plain text from this
> person
> ? shes got some snazy email program of other. bloody annoying it is
>
> cheers

Yeah, couldn't agree more, not sure on Mozilla it's been a while since I
used it for email, but thunderbird has a switch for smiley faces. Look
in the viewing section, turn of any html formatting.

Thor wrote:
> Yeah, couldn't agree more, not sure on Mozilla it's been a while since I
> used it for email, but thunderbird has a switch for smiley faces. Look
> in the viewing section, turn of any html formatting.

edit, preferences, message display(under "mail and newsgroups").

either that or disable loading of remote images...

edit, preferences, privacy and security, images, "do not load remote images"

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Trog wrote:
> Using mozilla. I got a friend that sends all this crap with smily faces
> waving at you on pretty colourd paper. very fancy, but Im an old git
> that likes to see text and all the other crap turned off. Where do I go
> in mozilla to turn the **** off and just get plain text from this person
> ? shes got some snazy email program of other. bloody annoying it is

Yes - it's a good idea to turn off html email. As well as avoiding wasting
bandwidth downloading advertising images, it also prevents spammers
monitoring which email addresses are active. (At least it stops some means
they use for this.)
HTML email is also a good way to propagate viruses and other malware.

Sorry, don't know the exact commands in Mozilla. I use kmail, which has a
useful feature where it doesn't render html emails, but has a button I can
click if I want to read it (ie it came from a bona fide sender).

HTH

Peter

Peter wrote:
>>Using mozilla. I got a friend that sends all this crap with smily faces
>>waving at you on pretty colourd paper. very fancy, but Im an old git
>>that likes to see text and all the other crap turned off. Where do I go
>>in mozilla to turn the **** off and just get plain text from this person
>>? shes got some snazy email program of other. bloody annoying it is

> Yes - it's a good idea to turn off html email.
> Sorry, don't know the exact commands in Mozilla.

ummm, I use it, and I can't see the setting either.
I don't get any html messages that I don't already expect, but would
still like to turn it off.

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Dave - Dave.net.nz wrote:

> Thor wrote:
>
>> Yeah, couldn't agree more, not sure on Mozilla it's been a while since I
>> used it for email, but thunderbird has a switch for smiley faces. Look
>> in the viewing section, turn of any html formatting.
>
>
> edit, preferences, message display(under "mail and newsgroups").
>
> either that or disable loading of remote images...
>
> edit, preferences, privacy and security, images, "do not load remote
> images"
>
Okay. tried that. got to message display. Cant find anything about
turning off html. Got fixed width font etc. but what now ?

cheers

Trog wrote:
>> edit, preferences, message display(under "mail and newsgroups").
>> either that or disable loading of remote images...
>> edit, preferences, privacy and security, images, "do not load remote
>> images"

> Okay. tried that. got to message display. Cant find anything about
> turning off html. Got fixed width font etc. but what now ?

yeah sorry can't find it myself either... but either/both of the above
should do it, unless the application attaches the image to the
email(making it huge grrr).

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Dave - Dave.net.nz wrote:

> Peter wrote:
>>>Using mozilla. I got a friend that sends all this crap with smily
>>>faces
>>>waving at you on pretty colourd paper. very fancy, but Im an old git
>>>that likes to see text and all the other crap turned off. Where do I
>>>go in mozilla to turn the **** off and just get plain text from this
>>>person
>>>? shes got some snazy email program of other. bloody annoying it is
>
>> Yes - it's a good idea to turn off html email.
>> Sorry, don't know the exact commands in Mozilla.
>
> ummm, I use it, and I can't see the setting either.
> I don't get any html messages that I don't already expect, but would
> still like to turn it off.
>


In 1.6 linux, found it on a disk and installed it
Under prefs, email, message display, there is a tick box for display
emoticons as graphics, that will answer the OP.

Dave - Dave.net.nz wrote:

> Thor wrote:
>
>> Yeah, couldn't agree more, not sure on Mozilla it's been a while since I
>> used it for email, but thunderbird has a switch for smiley faces. Look
>> in the viewing section, turn of any html formatting.
>
>
> edit, preferences, message display(under "mail and newsgroups").
>
> either that or disable loading of remote images...
>
> edit, preferences, privacy and security, images, "do not load remote
> images"
>

she's using incredimail. damn I hate that email client. Cant think of
a bigger waste of bandwidth

Trog wrote:

> Dave - Dave.net.nz wrote:
>
>> Thor wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, couldn't agree more, not sure on Mozilla it's been a while
>>> since I used it for email, but thunderbird has a switch for smiley
>>> faces. Look in the viewing section, turn of any html formatting.
>>
>>
>> edit, preferences, message display(under "mail and newsgroups").
>>
>> either that or disable loading of remote images...
>>
>> edit, preferences, privacy and security, images, "do not load remote
>> images"
>>
>
> she's using incredimail. damn I hate that email client. Cant think of
> a bigger waste of bandwidth

Yeah and the people that use it think they are the only ones that have
ever seen the flaming jokes they insist on forewarding out to everyone
in their address book as well.