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Sending Plain Text E-mail Messages

AOL 7.0

 

If you upgrade from AOL 6.0 to AOL 7.0 and up have customized your fonts/colors, the changes carry over during the upgrade and so you still need to go into Settings and switch back to the defaults as described above for AOL 6.0

To turn off HTML, use the following steps:

• Change global e-mail preferences (needs to be done only once):
  • Go to Keyword: Preferences (or choose Preferences from the Settings menu on the AOL 7.0 toolbar).
  • Click on Font, Text, & Graphics Preferences .
  • Click on the Reset button at the bottom of the resulting window. Do not make any changes in the Font Preferences area of the window.
  • Click on the Save button.

WARNING: Any attempt to change the font face, size, style, or color within the body of an e-mail message will change the message format to HTML, as will any attempt to use a different default font face, size, style, or color.

Lastly, you must remove your e-mail signature if it contains any styled text, as that will also change the message format back to HTML.

Like AOL 6, AOL 7 will use HTML when quoting a message (displaying the quoted portion with a blue line in the left margin). And like AOL 6, choosing Text - Normal will eliminate any indication that the text was quoted. However, unlike AOL 6, the message will now be sent in plain text. However, the quoted portion will need to be manually quoted.

 

Original material courtesy of Gerald E. Boyd.