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Lute Kamstra wrote:

> James D <nospam@please.no> writes:
> 
>> I often see people posting to newsgroups messages that include some
>> bold, underlined or italic characters in the body of their text(?)
>> messages. I use emacs as my external editor in kmail. How could I do
>> the same?
> 
> Try surrounding words with * characters to get *bold*, _ to get
> _underlined_ and / to get /italic/ text.
> 
> Lute.

Fine, this works for Knode but that does /not/ work for kmail which is the
mail client I use. Does this work only for newsreaders? Do you know of any
easy-to-use mail client which supports these nice features? Thanks again.
James D