Loosing formated data when replying or forwarding

When replying or forwarding an email that uses imbedded html format, I
loose the html formating and only have the text format

Does anyone know how to fix this? Perhaps a setting that I've
overlooked?

Running Eudora 7 with windows.

In article <FR_qk.25191$Ri.16627@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com>,
"." <you@somehost.somedomain> wrote:

> When replying or forwarding an email that uses imbedded html format, I
> loose the html formating and only have the text format
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this? Perhaps a setting that I've
> overlooked?
>
> Running Eudora 7 with windows.

I think Eudora throws that away; it only saves the text version.

By the way that should have been:

" ... lose the html formatting ... "

In the "Styled text" options,
choose either "Send both plain and styled" [recommended],
or "Send styled text only,"
or turn on "Ask me each time"
and give one of the above as your response when asked.

In my own setup, I choose "Send plain text only"
but also turn on "Ask me each time";
this makes "Send plain text only" my default
when I am asked, but I can change my mind
at the moment I finally send the message
(I am also alerted whenever my reply contains any HTML,
usually as a result of replying to an incoming HTML message,
which I generally do not want to send at all).

If you choose "Send plain text only" without "Ask me each time,"
then Eudora will automatically and silently disregard styled text,
and the editing tool buttons will not appear
in your message composition windows.

See page 323 in the Eudora 7.1 PDF manual for more verbose info.

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Tim Streater <timstreater@waitrose.com> wrote:

>By the way that should have been:
>
>" ... lose the html formatting ... "

Correcting a misspelled subject line for a minor spelling error
screws up those of us who have our newsreaders set to:

"Start a New thread when a follow-up subject changes."

You changed the subject, I got a needless new thread instead of a
follow-up under the original subject.

[Not that I have anything against improving spelling on the
Usenet, but after two decades plus on it, I've learned that it is
a Sisyphean task, dooming those who try it to an eternity
watching that damned boulder they just rolled up the hill roll
back down again for them to do it all over.]
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OJ III

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:11:29 -0700, "." <you@somehost.somedomain>
wrote:

>When replying or forwarding an email that uses imbedded html format, I
>loose the html formating and only have the text format
>
>Does anyone know how to fix this? Perhaps a setting that I've
>overlooked?
>
>Running Eudora 7 with windows.

Search Google for a plug-in called "forward as attachment".
It's not a perfect solution, but works a lot of the time.

Good luck, DGI

"." <you@somehost.somedomain> wrote in news:FR_qk.25191$Ri.16627
@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com:

> When replying or forwarding an email that uses imbedded html format, I
> loose the html formating and only have the text format
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this? Perhaps a setting that I've
> overlooked?
>
> Running Eudora 7 with windows.
>
The easiest solution is not to forward, but redirect. Then the original
format and content is preserved, but you can add your own comments to the
email.


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Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

In article <tdcpa4lmus5jpqh9878kcchd4m4vvcn13b@4ax.com>,
Ogden Johnson III <oj3usmc@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Tim Streater <timstreater@waitrose.com> wrote:
>
> >By the way that should have been:
> >
> >" ... lose the html formatting ... "
>
> Correcting a misspelled subject line for a minor spelling error

I don't regard using "loose" instead of "lose" as a minor error. That's
fighting talk, Buster!

> screws up those of us who have our newsreaders set to:
>
> "Start a New thread when a follow-up subject changes."
>
> You changed the subject, I got a needless new thread instead of a
> follow-up under the original subject.

Well, alright.

> [Not that I have anything against improving spelling on the
> Usenet, but after two decades plus on it, I've learned that it is
> a Sisyphean task, dooming those who try it to an eternity
> watching that damned boulder they just rolled up the hill roll
> back down again for them to do it all over.]

Yes, you're probably right, sad to say <sob>.

In my copy of version 7.1.0.9,
I find HTML text formatting preserved,
whether I "reply," "forward," or "re-direct,"
although the formatting will be removed
if my "Styled text" options
(or my response to being asked) so dictate.

I can also modify the new outgoing message in all cases.

I don't know whether any incoming messages may have a structure
capable of fooling Eudora, but I just tested the above
on messages sent to me by Eudora itself.

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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:19:33 -0500:

> Correcting a misspelled subject line for a minor spelling error
> screws up those of us who have our newsreaders set to:
>
> "Start a New thread when a follow-up subject changes."

But it doesn't affect any whose newsreaders
follow the "References" headers,
which then preserve original threads intact,
yet still show any changed subjects as changed.

One can still start a brand new thread with any reply,
if desired, by choosing a "new thread" or "compose" function,
instead of a "reply" or "reply all" function.


Should I have started a new thread for this reply,
since it is really not about the current "Subject"?

Or, why didn't the party I'm answering
both change the "subject" and start a new thread for it? ;-)

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Expanding the thought:

> I find HTML text formatting preserved,
> whether I "reply," "forward," or "re-direct,"
> although the formatting will be removed
> if my "Styled text" options
> (or my response to being asked) so dictate.

There is another issue (embedded images)
whose behaviors may differ
between Reply[all]/Forward/Redirect/"Send again",
but just text formatting alone seems to be consistently OK.

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