Re: [PLUG] Open source Mail client

[Martin Cracauer via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

H Mottaleb via plug wrote on Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 08:28:32PM -0500: 
> I think you misunderstood what I meant by image. It's not an image of me but my company logo. Most businesses today use those as a signatures along with some way of contacting them.

Do you send the image with each mail, or is it an image link?

The latter is often considered inappropriate tracking.

Martin
 
> Not only that, I can go into my phone and look at my sent messages and see that my image and logo show up just fine. I've tested this with other phone as well.
> 
> > On Jan 5, 2022, at 6:51 PM, Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> > 
> > ???The short answer is "Please don't." You're inevitably going to piss
> > people off by setting your signature to be an image. Also there are
> > some of us who still read a lot of our email in text mode browsers
> > like mutt, and we'll ever see your signature.
> > 
> > If you insist on doing it anyway, the thing to understand is that
> > email is at its heart a text-only medium. The way programs do rich
> > text is by formatting it as HTML and sending it as an attachment.
> > Because of that legacy, any support for images in signatures is going
> > to be spotty and not universally supported. The Mail program on macOS,
> > for instance, seems to only support plain-text signatures, while
> > Fastmail's web GUI has its complete rich text icon bar.
> > 
> > Looking at Thunderbird's support page for signatures [1] it looks like
> > you could either pick an file to be your signature, or you could
> > include HTML with an IMG tag to pull the image from somewhere else.
> > 
> > 1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/signatures
> > 
> > Walt
> > 
> >> On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 05:59:47PM -0500, H Mottaleb via plug wrote:
> >> Thank you all for your suggestions!
> >> 
> >> Installed Thunderbird and tried playing with it today a bit. I???m having problems with setting my signature with an image.
> >> 
> >> When I try to input the image simply by copying and pasting it into the signature box and then go into "write" which is Thunderbirds version of compose, all I see are a bunch of symbols and numbers. I know that it works by using the an old HTML code but that's not the style and color of signature that I want on my emails. If there's any way I can simply copy and paste it in there that would be ideal.
> >> 
> >>>> On Jan 5, 2022, at 11:10 AM, Ron Nascimento via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> ???On Wed, 2022-01-05 at 15:31 +0000, Rev. LeRoy Cressy via plug wrote:
> >>>> Evolution:
> >>>> Is extremely slow when accessing protonmail bridge and gmail but on
> >>>> sending mail it will automatically sign the contents of your mail with
> >>>> gpg --clear-sign which is great.  If attachments are included the
> >>>> message will be signed with a detached signature.
> >>> 
> >>> I can't get the Flatpak version of Evolution to sign, keep getting 
> >>> 
> >>> `Inappropriate ioctl for device`
> >>> 
> >>> I tried everything from:
> >>> 
> >>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51504367/gpg-agent-forwarding-inappropriate-ioctl-for-device
> >>> 
> >>> https://d.sb/2016/11/gpg-inappropriate-ioctl-for-device-errors
> >>> 
> >>> I think its a Flatpak issue, but I dont feel like
> >>> uninstalling/installing again right now.
> >>> 
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