[Enigmail] Can enigmail work with HTML messages in Thunderbird?

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at telia.com
Sun Jul 15 00:08:21 PDT 2007


John W. Moore III wrote:
> Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> Bo Berglund wrote:
>>> Can anyone with TB on Windows hint where I should go to re-enable HTML
>>> emails?
>> >From the main window, View-->Message body as...
> 
>>>> PGP/MIME should allow you to send HTML mail.
>>> What do you mean by this? I don't understand....
>> I mean exactly what I said.  Setting Enigmail to use PGP/MIME for
>> everything should allow you to send HTML mail without problems, even
>> when encrypting and/or signing the mail.
> 
> OK, the Option for composing *with* HTML is under 'Account Settings' and

Thanks, I did not think that such a setting would be there at all.
I primarily use MS Outlook and there one can change the message format
while writing via a menu item. I expected something similar in TB too...

>  the 'Indian Trick' for switching back & forth 'on-the-fly' from one
> mode to the other is to depress & hold the 'Shift' Key when clicking
> 'Write', 'Reply' & 'Forward'.  Using this method; whatever You have
> T-Bird set to Compose with, it will use the opposite when the Compose
> screen Opens. :)
> 

That was a really weird way of modifying the compose format!
But I have verified that it actually does work! :-)

/Bo


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