I have just downloaded version 4.0.1 of Eudora for the Macintosh. It has much better support for MHTML than Eudora 4.0. Added features:
(1) You can now send plain text and html in the same message using multipart/alternative, just as with Outlook Express and Netscape.
(2) Eudora does not just omit HTML features it cannot handle, it shows them some way or other. An image to be downloaded at read time, is now showed as a broken image symbol, instead of just being omitted. The user can easily use the command "Open in Browser" in the "File" menu.
I also noted that Netscape seems to have problems with national 8-bit characters in HTML messages. Thus, it is better to use "Ö" rather than "Ö" for the Germanic character O with two dots. This is probably a Macintosh- only problem, caused by the fact that Macintosh does not use ISO 8859-1 for local storage of text.
Because of this, I have updated my web page with advice on how to send HTML in e-mail to indicate these observations at URL http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/web-email.html. I have only tested Eudora, Netscape and Outlook Express, so if someone notes some additional observations of value for other mailers in the above web page, please tell me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacob Palme <[log in to unmask]> (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme
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