From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roodwriter@core.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: off-topic? Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 16:39:04 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roodwriter@core.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051908269 11536 80.91.224.249 (2 May 2003 20:44:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 20:44:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 02 22:44:26 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19BhOL-0002zW-00 for ; Fri, 02 May 2003 22:44:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19BhMG-00082L-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 16:42:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 53 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112682 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9176 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9176 James D wrote: > Lute Kamstra wrote: > >> James D 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 I thought you were talking about newsreaders. My mistake. I don't believe (I could be wrong) that there's a way to do this with KMail. Why? Because it would take HTML. For security reasons a lot of people don't want HTML in their mail. Unless the newer version that comes with KDE 3.1 (I use 3.0) has changed, KMail has a toggle allowing you to READ HTML mail if you want, but there's no way to SEND it. Unless you do it as an attached file. Attaching a file, though would give you other options, such as sending it as a PDF. The reason for not wanting HTML in your mail is that someone could send you an e-mail with code in it that could set off an attached virus without you even executing the file. I don't know how prevalent these are, though. Plus the overwhelming majority of viruses are written for Windows, not Linux. And there are people that lament the additional usage of bandwidth just to make the message colorful. I don't find this argument compelling but I do have security concerns. I also don't know if there are other Linux e-mail programs that allow you to send HTML mail. Some of the others I looked at didn't appear to. But things change and my distribution is a year old. --Rod -- Author of "Linux for Non-Geeks--Clear-eyed Answers for Practical Consumers" and "Boring Stories from Uncle Rod." Both are available at http://www.rodwriterpublishing.com/index.html To reply by e-mail, take the extra "o" out of my e-mail address. It's to confuse spambots, of course.