[LBo] Re: Looking for GUI Mail Client that easily switches between viewing the plain text and HTML of a "composite" email

[Dave Lerner]

Billy Pollifrone wrote on 12/05/2006 11:40 AM:
> Thunderbird does well. View->Message Body As->Original HTML
>                                             ->Simple HTML
>                                             ->Plain Text
> Not as easy as say a keyboard shortcut to switch, but I can't say
> there's been many occasions I would go to HTML mail. Someone sending a
> link to me works just fine. Thunderbird also has the option to not
> display remote images in HTML mail which is a huge privacy risk as the
> image could be used to make your program give the webserver information.

There's also a Thunderbird extension "Allow HTML temporary"
<https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/1556/> that "allows to have HTML
temporary enabled/allowed in the selected message by only one click."

I use Thunderbird, but haven't tried that particular extension.