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Sending Plain Text E-mail Messages

Eudora Light v3.0.5 and earlier

 

You can have Eudora warn you before sending messages that contain styled text or HTML.

• Click on Tools: Options
• Select the Extra Warnings category
• Check the box for Warn me when I "Queue a message with Styled Text".

If you want to make sure that you never accidentally send a message with styled or HTML text, you can have Eudora automatically discard the styles before sending any message.

• Click on Tools: Options
• Select the Styled Text tab
• Check the box for "Discard styles before sending messages"
• Click on Tools: Options
• Select the Sending Mail category
• Uncheck the check box for "May use quoted-printable"

This means that even if your message is filled with bold and italics, colors, and font changes, the message will be sent out without any of this formatting; instead it will be stripped down to the basic plain text before Eudora sends it. Also, the quoted-printable method of character encoding (used by non-US versions for foreign character recognition) can cause some formatting problems for some mail readers. If you do not need to type these foreign characters, you should turn off the quoted- printable option.

Original material courtesy of Gerald E. Boyd.