Talkmail is excellent!
 

Randy, EXCELLENT choice to get Talkmail started again, it's a great read! Many thanks!

Is there somewhere on FT where you archive them (and the previous ones from the past)?

Just got my issue--kudos Randy.

I agree, but at least the copy I receive is very hard to read. It doesn't display as HTML, rather all HTML code shows up on the screen. The reason is likely that in the email header there is a blank line before

Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

which needs to be part of the header without blank lines preceding it. There are also other header fields that appear after a blank line. Incomplete headers are likely to activate spam filters. Can this be fixed?

Yes, TalkMail is nice. It looks fine in my AOL e-mail.

One small quibble: the current edition (received 10/31/03) says, "Currently, we're up to 'Who We All Are 8'." The bio for RichardMEL is then quoted, from March 2001.

Well, no, the latest version is actually "Who We All Are 9," which was started on 07-10-2001. It's the only "Who We All Are" thread that popped up when I searched FlyerTalk Community, in fact.


Kathy

Great http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif! Thank you Randy!

Mine arrived this morning, really useful. Thanks Randy,

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Bazz
Still Flying

all I got was the HTML gook as described above in my aol http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

OK. I was waiting for someone else to ask but no one did.

What is talkmail? And why am I not getting it?

I love it too... a quick suggestion for Randy, however...

... can we contact the member in question for their "current" bio - or at least check to see if they want to update? I know a bunch of us posted when we first came to FT and may have a lot of changes in our life since then... or do we have to post a new bio? I noticed, for example, that several FTers no longer live in the city they did in their bio... or fly the same airlines... or even have the same job/status/etc.

If you have AOL 6.0 or above, it will "interperet" the HTML for you.

AOL 5.0, which is the most advanced version of AOL for Mac OS9, is unable to read e-mail sent with HTML

Mac OS X users can get a version of AOL that handles HTML, as can users of Windows 98 or later.

My advice to you, if you can only upgrade as far as AOL 5.0 is to check your AOL e-mail via the www.aol.com web page
(a.k.a. "AOL Anywhere"); doing this will allow you to read the HTML encoded mail without the gobilygook!

(fix-ed the grammer)

[This message has been edited by HeHateY (edited 11-01-2003).]

Exactly.

That is why I thought it slightly odd that they would use a bio from....March 2001.

A LOT of things have changed in the world since then!!!


Kathy

yep that would be me - but your tip worked liek a charm - thanks!


and yeah now I can say too TalkMail is GREAT!

Outlook Express "interprets" the HTML as well, if the "Content-type" stuff is part of the header, which it seems not to be. To work in regular email clients, the email sent needs to conform with the standard (AOL 6 may not care). Can someone else using Outlook Express let us know whether it works in their end or not.

We just tested it again on Outlook Express, using XP and 98, and it came through fine. We also tried it on Hotmail, Yahoo and Apple's Mail, and there weren't any problems.

Hagbard, can you tell me where you saw that you need to keep headers all together? I ask because that's new to me, and when sending a multipart email (as we do with MilesLink), you have to separate the header's content-type in order to serve both text and html within the same email.

Sorry about the formatting problems some of you are having, but we can't duplicate the error on our end.