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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] KMail - Replying in HTML
From:       John Murphy <john () jjmurphy ! com ! au>
Date:       2010-08-03 22:38:42
Message-ID: 201008040838.42961.john () jjmurphy ! com ! au
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On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 03:38:08 am Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 August 2010, Anoop wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Johannes Graumann
> > <johannes_graumann@web.de> wrote:
> > > Anoop wrote:
> > >> Hi List,
> > >> 
> > >> Is it possible to reply a mail in HTML using KMail? If not, will
> > >> this feature be part of KMail-2.0?
> > >
> > > <Ctrl-N> --> Settings --> Toolbars Shown --> HTML Toolbar
> > > ?
> > 
> > With this I can compose an email in HTML. But say if I received an
> > email in HTML and hit reply. Currently the reply mail is converted to
> > plain text. Is there a way to preserve the HTML?
> 
> No. I am not aware of anybody working on making this possible. So, as 
> far as I can tell, KMail 2.0 will not support this. Moreover, it's not 
> very likely KMail will ever fully support this as no KMail core 
> developer is interested in HTML messages.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo
> 
Great shame. 
Marks KMail as a snobby, only-techies-welcome client.
Why this groupthink "HTML is evil" is still around is a mystery.
I did think opensource was about choice - but not in some areas it seems.
Still, I suppose we should be thankful we have basic HTML - and spell-checkers.

Regards,
johnM
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