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Sending Plain Text E-mail Messages

Netscape Communicator 6.0 - 6.1

 

• Select "Edit" then click on "Preferences..."
• Click on the arrow symbol before "Mail & Newsgroups"
• Click on "Message Composition" in left pane
• In the "Forwarding and Replying to Messages" section, change the "Forward messages:" to Inline.
• In the "Composing Messages" section, unckeck the box in front of "For messages that contain 8-bit characters..."
• Click on "Send Formatting" in left pane
• In the section "When sending message in HTML format...", click on "Ask me what to do..."
• Click on "OK".

When in a new message screen (Compose)

• Select "Options" in the taskbar
• Select "Format"
• Click on "Plain text only". The default is probably shown as "auto detect"
• Send the message

 

Original material courtesy of Gerald E. Boyd.