make thunderbird NOT show html

[Roger Heflin]

David Boles wrote:
> Roger Heflin wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Mike Wright 
>> <mike.wright at mailinator.com <mailto:mike.wright at mailinator.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     It seems that there are many clueless people who could never write a
>>     web page but seem to feel more than qualified to send html mail.  I
>>     am tired of squinting at itty bitty fonts that are rendered by
>>     Thunderbird whenever it displays html email.  (List denizens, please
>>     note: html mail gets an instant delete here; you will receive no
>>     help from me.)
>>
>>     Does anybody know how to make Thunderbird display only the
>>     text/plain portion of multipart email?
>>
>>     I've set up a filter to delete email with the header "Content-Type:
>>     text/html" but that only catches some of it.
>>
>>     A hearty toast to whomever can solve this one.
>>
>>
>> Maybe:
>>
>> view -> message body as -> plain text
>>  
>> And that bad news for us is those clueless people are developers that 
>> develop email programs and really don't have a clue what they are 
>> doing, but certainly think they do.
>>
>>                                  Roger
>>
> 
> 
> Roger are you aware that your email is composed in rich text formating? 
> Which is as annoying as html.  ;-)
> 
Sorry about that.

I used Google's webmail interface for that message, and I checked I cannot see 
any option in the "settings" to do it any other way (at least all of the time), 
it kind of looks like you need to hit plain text on a given reply email, and it 
kind of looks like once you hit plain text (or rich formatting) on any one 
message it stays that way for all later reply (not exactly how one would have 
expected the interface to act-or where one would have expected the option to be, 
and it should still be in settings as that is were it actually belongs for a 
what appears to be a permanent setting).

This one should not be RTF or HTML, I sent it from thunderbird and I am 99% sure 
it is setup to only send plain text.

                             Roger