RE: [Evolution] Specify fonts in outgoing e-mails

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 08:54 -0400, Rob Hasselbaum wrote:
> Hmm... apparently, I've hit a nerve. That wasn't my intention, but I must
> say, I don't buy the argument that this feature is not important or will
> somehow make Evolution less compatible with other readers. On the contrary,
> the reason I bring this up is because the HTML produced by Evolution looks
> quite bad in Outlook--especially quoted replies. And since my company (and
> much of the rest of the world) uses Outlook, that's a problem.

I just made this email chain between my computer and my work laptop
(Win2k & Outlook XP via VPN to the Exchange servers at work).

Do you think it looks bad?

> Oh well, thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, I don't think Evolution is
> right for me at this time.

The Exchange Connector might have caused difficulty, too.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA

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• From: "Johnson, Ronald " <ronald johnson acs-inc com>
• To: Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>
• Subject: RE: Testing HTML mail
• Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 13:27:51 -0400

Doesn't look bad.  What's the problem?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron l johnson cox net] 
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:27 PM
To: Johnson, Ronald
Subject: RE: Testing HTML mail


Now for the real test: what do replies look like?

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 13:24 -0400, Johnson, Ronald wrote:

Well, let's see what this looks like.
        
        -----Original Message-----
        From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron l johnson cox net] 
        Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:17 PM
        To: Ronald johnson acs-inc com
        Subject: Testing HTML mail
        
        
        Let's just see what this looks like when I send it to Outlook
        XP.
        
        It's got lots of different styles and colors.
        
        big and littler and normal and tiny text.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA

"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to
do it about every ten minutes." Senator J. William Fulbright (D-AR)

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