Does email system Horde Web mail work with HTML??

Joe Cho ksjoecho at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 7 23:30:45 CDT 2003


I guess Horde webmail system 
has some limitation in terms of displaying 
html context on web browser(ie,mozilla), not like any
other webmail email system.

I will try to dig squirrelmail as well then.

I certainly appreciate your input.

Thanks!

Joe Cho
ksjoecho at yahoo.com

--- Brian D <quiet_celt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I use a webmail client too (not horde). The writer
> officially frowns on HTML mail, but included some
> basic support for it. It has issues with some html
> mail, but not all. Your problem with viewing html
> mail
> is dependent on how well the webmail client program
> was written. From what I understand squirrelmail is
> a
> decent webmail server for viewing html formatted
> mail.
> Your horde system may not have code to handle all
> types of HTML mail. As there is much M$ noncompliant
> html which the coder may not have coded for. Hence
> HTML mail isn't guaranteed to be readable even
> between
> different M$ versions. I sure there are also other
> html writing tools that also are less than stellar
> at
> formatting readable HTML. The great thing about
> standard document types is everyone has their own
> version. ;)
> 
> >... and the message is displayed like this below:
> > 
> > "This message contains an HTML formatted message
> but
> > your email client does not support the display of
> > HTML. Please view this message in a different mail
> > client or forward this email to a web-based mail
> > system."
> > 
> > As a matter of fact, I tried on Microsoft Outlook
> > client this afternoon,
> > after set up some necessary thing, 
> > It works fine.
> > However, I haven't tried on Linux mail client
> > though.
> > 
> > Now, I can narrow down the problem, this Horde web
> > mail has some limitation or
> > the setting I have done may have some
> configuration
> > error.
> > 
> 
> 
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