topic Re: mail in Operating System - HP-UX

mail

chapaya_1 — Sun, 07 May 2006 03:30:03 GMT

Hi ,

Is it possible to configure mail box to get mails just in plain text , and it case rich text is accepted it will be converted to plain test ?

BYE

Re: mail

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 07 May 2006 03:51:33 GMT

Shalom chapaya,

Sendmail is pretty much a text transmitter, based on my understanding.

Its quite possible to build nice text codes into the email to provide pretty html or other formats which display depeneding on the mail reader.

Most of this stuff really happens when the user opens the mail and depends on the OS and mail reader.

SEP

Re: mail

Bill Hassell — Sun, 07 May 2006 17:13:22 GMT

sendmail in HP-UX doesn't care about the message and will not filter or translate the message. Therefore, the mail reader must handle this task, but elm and mailx do not have any rich text translators. Each user would have to transfer the rich text file to a PC so it can be read using WordPad os MSword. There is a package called Ted:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/PostScript/Ted-2.9/

but this program requires Xwindows on user PCs, plus several runtime dependencies.

It will be much simpler to forward these emails to a PC mail service using aliases.