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Plain text and html e-mail – Palm TUNGSTEN T2 User Manual

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Getting, sending, and managing e-mail

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Plain text and HTML e-mail

By default, the VersaMail application is set to receive mail in HTML format. This
means that any e-mail messages sent as HTML will be displayed on your handheld
with basic HTML formatting intact, including the following:

Boldface

Italics

Underlining

Colored words

Bullet lists

Numbered lists

Line breaks

Most formatting not displayed is stripped of its HTML tags and shown as plain
text. For certain types of graphic images (for example, JPG or GIF files), the graphic
may be displayed as a URL in the body of the e-mail message. In some cases, you
can tap the URL to open the graphic image. See

“Working with URLs”

later in this

chapter for more information.

When you set the VersaMail application to receive e-mail messages as HTML, any
messages sent as plain text will be displayed as plain text only. You can also set the
application to receive all messages as plain text only, regardless of the format in
which they were sent. If you choose this option, only the text of any messages sent
in HTML format will be displayed.

NOTE

The VersaMail application sends all messages as plain text only, with all HTML

tags stripped, even if you are forwarding or replying to a message that was originally
received as HTML.

To select whether to receive e-mail messages in HTML or in plain text format:

1.

Tap the Menu icon

.

2.

Tap Options.

3.

Select Preferences.

4.

Tap the Receive Format pick list and select HTML or Plain Text. The default is
HTML.

5.

Tap OK.