From: Ellen K. 

Why do you want to compose HTML email anyway?

Personally I don't want to receive HTML email, only plain text.

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:45:07 -0800, Randall Parker

wrote in message :

>Opera Mail (v7.54) can show HTML email just fine. But if the composer has a
way to
>set fonts, italics, and all that formatting stuff when composing an email the
way to
>do so is not obvious to me.
>
>I have tried pasting HTML (from an HTML emal that displays with formatting in
the
>Inbox and from Mozilla) into the message composer and the HTML formatting is
lost. So
>this program doesn't appear to know how to compose HTML.
>
>I also am having trouble getting authenticated email to send on one ISP. Opera
offers
>4 different Authentication choices on SMTP on the Servers tab. You have to
create the
>email account and only after it is created can you go and set some of the
settings.
>That threw me for a curve.
>
>The SMTP Authentication choices:
>
>Auto
>AUTH CRAM-MD5
>AUTH LOGIN
>Plaintext
>None
>
>Separately they have a checkbox for
>    Secure connection (TLS)
>  which I haven't tried yet.
>
>I also find the layout of the email program to be bizarre. Maybe it makes more
sense
>  once you have learned it. But between the  authentication problem and lack
of HTML
>composing of emails I'm not inclined to learn it at this point in time.

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