On 23/10/2010 05:08, Oli Glaser wrote: > On 23/10/2010 04:40, Oli Glaser wrote: >> >> Okay, I finally got sick enough of Windows Live Mail to try something >> else, namely Thunderbird. >> I actually quite liked it as far as MS stuff goes, but I was offered an >> update a few days ago (to the whole Windows Live "Essentials" package >> which tries to shove all sorts of rubbish onto your PC - search bars, >> shopping aids etc etc) and decided to try it, just selecting the e-mail >> update. >> To cut a long story short - they have decided in their infinite wisdom >> to remove the "indent with>" feature in the plain text send options.. >> Why??? what harm was it doing to anyone? This inexplicable removal (with >> no explanation on any forums I could find) of a feature that must be >> used by most people on mailing lists was the last straw. >> >> So for anyone with Windows (Live) Mail (I gather there is actually a >> difference between WM and WLM, what on earth was wrong with just leaving >> Outlook or OE alone.. another rant right there..) you might want to >> think about not updating unless you want to lose this simple and useful >> feature. Maybe MS are trying to push us all into the online HTML >> mail/blog world - I can't see any sane reason for deliberately removing >> such a feature, maybe someone else has a better idea though.. >> Well anyway, TB seems pretty good from first experiences - far better >> and more intuitive than WLM. I even managed to get most of my mail >> across pretty painlessly which was a big surprise given the trouble I've >> had in the past with OE, WM, WML mail formats/sharing.. >> Glad that's off my chest, can go back to wrestling with real EE problems >> now.. none of this flimsy software rubbish.. :-) >> >> >> >> > I'm replying to my own mail as a test that the above is indented > properly in plain text to see if I have set up TB correctly, as I can't > as yet get TB to display in plain text (it displays with blue bars for > me), though it says it will send in plain text to domains you can > specify (which I have done) > Could someone let me know how it displays for them? > > > > I checked by looking back in WLM, and it looks good to me (unless anyone=20 sees different) - the above messages display with the > indents, so I=20 think everything is set up okay for plain text, and I am happy to let TB=20 display it to me with the blue bar formatting. TB seems to be far richer=20 feature wise, and faster too - why does every MS product assume it's the=20 only thing running on your machine? Why do I need a quad core super mega=20 whatsit with 4GB of ram to read my mail? Or browse the web? I'll refrain=20 from another rant and stop before I get started again, just been one of=20 those frustrating days PC wise... --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .