Using Gmail

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 00:57:00 UTC 2007


> Aye but Gmail and most web base email is HTML email period. 

This is incorrect, at least for Gmail.  Above the editing box, choose
"<< Plain text," and the formatting bar magically disappears and your
message is sent in ASCII as $DEITY intended.  (The prompt changes to
"Rich formatting" so you can switch back and forth as desired.)  Trust
Google to play nice with FOSS, they love us.

> With Gmail I can use pop3 but that means changing my password,
> actually it means unsubscribing since I use this email for important
> and work related\tasks and pop3 sends the password in the clear. So I
> have to unsubscribe with this email addy, resubscribe with a new gmail
> since it's the only free email that I know of which has pop3 access.
> Then I can send in plain text.  I can view in plain text all day long
> LOL. 

Also incorrect.  I use Evolution with Gmail securely, by turning on the
option to use SSL encryption and password authentication.  The password
travels over the SSL encrypted session once it is established, QED.

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