Eudora 7.1: problems with some attachments

[i***@jejejeje.it]

Hi,
I use Eudora 7.1 and it works fine even with attachments but some
times I don't see them.
For example:
I put I listed an item on "Kijiji" and Kijiji asked me to confirm the
email just sent. Yes, I received the email with the right title but it
was completely blank, with no links or writings in the body of the
message
So I had to go to the web and open my message to be able to confirm
that link. Why does this happen to me? This is not the first time. Can
I solve this problem?
Thank you

[DaveH2]

Post by i***@jejejeje.it
Hi,
I use Eudora 7.1 and it works fine even with attachments but some
times I don't see them.
I put I listed an item on "Kijiji" and Kijiji asked me to confirm the
email just sent. Yes, I received the email with the right title but it
was completely blank, with no links or writings in the body of the
message
So I had to go to the web and open my message to be able to confirm
that link. Why does this happen to me? This is not the first time. Can
I solve this problem?
Thank you

Eudora does now have problems with some modern e-mail formats.
The easiest workaround is to right click on the message and select "send to browser".
That should open the message in your default web browser, which hopefully will be able to display it correctly.
HTH.
Cheers, Dave.

[i***@jejejeje.it]

Post by DaveH2
Eudora does now have problems with some modern e-mail formats.
The easiest workaround is to right click on the message and select "send to browser".
That should open the message in your default web browser, which hopefully will be able to display it correctly.
HTH.

Hi Dave, may be I don't understand. If my message is white, what have
I to open with my browser?

[DaveH2]

Post by i***@jejejeje.it

Post by DaveH2
Eudora does now have problems with some modern e-mail formats.
The easiest workaround is to right click on the message and select "send to browser".
That should open the message in your default web browser, which hopefully will be able to display it correctly.
HTH.

Hi Dave, may be I don't understand. If my message is white, what have
I to open with my browser?

You should still be able to right click on it and select "Send to Browser" even if it's just displaying a white window.

[i***@jejejeje.it]

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO THANK all of you for your advice, for your
kindness and availability The way you told me, anger works.

[Piet]

Yes, I received the email with the right title but it was
completely blank, with no links or writings in the body of
the message
Why does this happen to me?

You're not the only one. It happens to me occasionally.
For security reasons I've deselected the option "Use
Microsoft's viewer", but Eudora's internal HTML viewer.
That one is heavily out of date though, so I'm not at
all surprised it can't cope with "modern" HTML stuff
in messages. So what I do is to open the mailbox file
(e.g. in.mbx) with Notepad to see if I see something
suspicious. If not, I use right-click / Send to browser
in the "empty" message.

-p

[liz]

Post by Piet

Yes, I received the email with the right title but it was
completely blank, with no links or writings in the body of
the message
Why does this happen to me?

You're not the only one. It happens to me occasionally.
For security reasons I've deselected the option "Use
Microsoft's viewer", but Eudora's internal HTML viewer.

How do you enable Eudora's internal HTML viewer?

I thought the only choice was between "Use Microsoft's viewer" or to
see plain text.

[Jim H]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 02:56:31 GMT, in

Post by liz

Post by Piet

Yes, I received the email with the right title but it was
completely blank, with no links or writings in the body of
the message
Why does this happen to me?

You're not the only one. It happens to me occasionally.
For security reasons I've deselected the option "Use
Microsoft's viewer", but Eudora's internal HTML viewer.

How do you enable Eudora's internal HTML viewer?
I thought the only choice was between "Use Microsoft's viewer" or to
see plain text.

The internal viewer lets you see styled text, bulleted lists,
indenting, margin adjustment, maybe a bit more... but not always as
intended given some additions to HTML since development on Eudora
stoppped.

And if you don't automatically download HTML graphics you avoid all
the web beacons that are sent by both legitimate (for some definition
of the term) newsletters and other commercial entities as well as
spammers.

[liz]

Post by Jim H
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 02:56:31 GMT, in

Post by liz

Post by Piet

Yes, I received the email with the right title but it was
completely blank, with no links or writings in the body of
the message
Why does this happen to me?

You're not the only one. It happens to me occasionally.
For security reasons I've deselected the option "Use
Microsoft's viewer", but Eudora's internal HTML viewer.

How do you enable Eudora's internal HTML viewer?
I thought the only choice was between "Use Microsoft's viewer" or to
see plain text.

The internal viewer lets you see styled text, bulleted lists,
indenting, margin adjustment, maybe a bit more... but not always as
intended given some additions to HTML since development on Eudora
stoppped.
And if you don't automatically download HTML graphics you avoid all
the web beacons that are sent by both legitimate (for some definition
of the term) newsletters and other commercial entities as well as
spammers.

What settings do I need to make Eudora use its internal HTML viewer?

I have never heard of a native Eudora HTML viewer. When I disable "Use
Microsoft's Viewer" in Options all I seem to see is plain text.

[Piet]

Post by liz

Post by Jim H
The internal viewer lets you see styled text, bulleted lists,
indenting, margin adjustment, maybe a bit more... but not always as
intended given some additions to HTML since development on Eudora
stoppped.
And if you don't automatically download HTML graphics you avoid all
the web beacons that are sent by both legitimate (for some definition
of the term) newsletters and other commercial entities as well as
spammers.

What settings do I need to make Eudora use its internal HTML viewer?

None, except for *not* ticking the "Use Microsoft's viewer" in
the "Message Window" under Tools > Options > Viewing Mail

Post by liz
I have never heard of a native Eudora HTML viewer.

The Eudora manual doesn't speak about "HTML viewer", but "Eudora
lets you view incoming mail with advanced formatting, graphics,
multimedia, and the like". In common speak that's a HTML viewer,
but a very limited one. For using the full glory and threats of
HTML you can right-click on a message *you trust* to send it to
your default browser.

Post by liz
When I disable "Use Microsoft's Viewer" in Options all I seem to
see is plain text.

Then the message is in plain text or Eudora's primitive HTML
viewer is incapable of (fully) rendering it. I've seen quite a
lot of such cases, and it's increasing.

-p

[DaveH2]

Post by liz

Post by Piet

Yes, I received the email with the right title but it was
completely blank, with no links or writings in the body of
the message
Why does this happen to me?

You're not the only one. It happens to me occasionally.
For security reasons I've deselected the option "Use
Microsoft's viewer", but Eudora's internal HTML viewer.

How do you enable Eudora's internal HTML viewer?
I thought the only choice was between "Use Microsoft's viewer" or to
see plain text.

If you don't have "Use Microsoft's viewer" checked, you are using Eudora's internal viewer.
This is not a plain text viewer, but it only has very limited HTML support, which results in many modern format messages looking a complete mess in it! Generally you're better off now using the "Microsoft Viewer", which is actually Internet Explorer's HTML rendering engine.
Even this now has problems sometimes unfortunately, especially if you're on an old version of Windows.