Will Mail.app 2.0 allow the creation of new email messages to be formatted as HTML as opposed to just the current 2 choices of plain text and rich text?
Will Mail.app 2.0 allow the creation of new email messages to be formatted as HTML as opposed to just the current 2 choices of plain text and rich text?
The notes on Apple's site seem to indicate that this will unfortunately be the default. I personally dislike html email, and so my first action will be to default it back to plain text. To be clear: I don't think that html emial should go away... it can be useful in rare cases (usually enriched email does the job better), but I dislike it being default.
I work in a cross platform environment. 200 Macs and 600 Win2K boxes. When email is sent or forwarded from Macs (Mail.app 1.x via IMAP/SMTP to Exchange Server) to the PCs (Outlook via MAPI from Exchange Server), any HTML possible data is wrecked. The PC user sees a million attachments, etc. Not cool at all. I hope Mail.app 2.0 fixes this. Not very elegant.
Mail.app has had Exchange server support since 10.3. The only thing new on this front for 10.4 is that there is now support for Microsoft's proprietary Kerberos and NTLM v2 authentication methods.
The quota system is just adding in the quota signals that are optional in IMAP. I believe that Exchange server provides these.
As to the email server messing up on current Mail.app messages, that is because Microsoft messed up completely in implementing the enriched mail standard (part of the mail rfc's, and not to be confused with rich text/rtf... completely different). The current version of Mail.app (< 2.0) does not send out html mail (unless you use one of the plugins... I don't think we are in that case). Notice that this is completely Microsoft's fault. Mail.app even sends a plain text version of the message for complete compatibility.
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Originally posted by dstranathan
Will Mail.app 2.0 allow the creation of new email messages to be formatted as HTML as opposed to just the current 2 choices of plain text and rich text?
The notes on Apple's site seem to indicate that this will unfortunately be the default. I personally dislike html email, and so my first action will be to default it back to plain text. To be clear: I don't think that html emial should go away... it can be useful in rare cases (usually enriched email does the job better), but I dislike it being default.
I work in a cross platform environment. 200 Macs and 600 Win2K boxes. When email is sent or forwarded from Macs (Mail.app 1.x via IMAP/SMTP to Exchange Server) to the PCs (Outlook via MAPI from Exchange Server), any HTML possible data is wrecked. The PC user sees a million attachments, etc. Not cool at all. I hope Mail.app 2.0 fixes this. Not very elegant.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail/
"HTML Message Composition
Mail uses the Safari engine to format newly composed email using HTML."
This is interesting:
"Mail Server Quota Management
Display information about the amount of mail server storage used/available on compatible email servers."
Does this mean Exchange servers????
The quota system is just adding in the quota signals that are optional in IMAP. I believe that Exchange server provides these.
As to the email server messing up on current Mail.app messages, that is because Microsoft messed up completely in implementing the enriched mail standard (part of the mail rfc's, and not to be confused with rich text/rtf... completely different). The current version of Mail.app (< 2.0) does not send out html mail (unless you use one of the plugins... I don't think we are in that case). Notice that this is completely Microsoft's fault. Mail.app even sends a plain text version of the message for complete compatibility.