[thelist] Sending plain text email with AOL

John Dowdell jdowdell at macromedia.com
Mon Jan 15 17:57:37 CST 2001


At 9:59 AM 1/15/1, Charles Johnson wrote:
>Now the problem is the AOL email client, which insists on encoding the email
>in HTML. We haven't managed to find the setting to turn this off. Anyone
>know where it is?

It may vary with the version of the AOL client in use. (I've heard a rumor
that the new AOL6/Win will send newsgroup messages as HTML, which would be
disastrous.)

Here's how to handle many common emailers:
http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/html-off.html

Here's AOL's webmaster reference:
http://webinfo.aol.com/

jd





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