PTC Mathcad forum: email notification html change?

[Ninetrees]

I used to get emails from this forum that gave me a clue to the thread content. Now I get the notification emails, but the body is blank (in Eudora 7.1.0.9). I can send the email content to my browser, but that involves extra steps. What changed on the forum side wrt html formatting? Or is this some subtle side effect of a Windows "update"?

~R~

[MikeArmstrong]

I use MS Outlook 2007 and recieve e-mail notifications complete with the text from the post.

Mike

[Ninetrees]

Thanks, Mike, it's good to know what works and what doesn't. In my case, I won't be going to Outlook. I still wonder if the email notification template has changed, or if my system has changed...

~R~

[AlvaroDíaz]

Your problem seems to be not a problem of your windows system but from Eudora -I use it long time ago, but after experiment a lot of problems with it I abandon.

I don't want to start another thread, but have two issues:

- Logo image from PTC is missing; the image must to be somewhere in the internet, but it isn't.

- There are not link for attached files in the email notification

Regards. Alvaro.

[MikeArmstrong]

I don't want to start another thread, but have two issues:

- Logo image from PTC is missing; the image must to be somewhere in the internet, but it isn't.

- There are not link for attached files in the email notification

Just to confirm, I have exactly the same issue's. I have never seen a link for the files which have been attached in a post though. Only a direct link to the conversation.

Mike

[Ninetrees]

WRT Eudora, I have been using it for over a decade, and like it. It needs to be updated, but I still prefer it to some of the others that I've seen. I opine that the choice of desktop tools is an expression of individual taste. I know what I like, but that doesn't mean that it is "the best", just that I like it better than other options 😉

That being said, up to a week or so a go, I could see the content in the PTC email notifications. Now I cannot. Eudora hasn't changed since 2006 ;-( (Except for the open source work in progress).

I'd like the emails to contain a minimum of formatting and information. Any more just eats up internet bandwidth. I just got another email from PTC, and it has a big PTC logo in it. I think it is a waste of bandwidth, and the US certainly doesn't have the bandwidth to waste.

I just checked my preferences and didn't find one that I'd like to see: I'd like to have an option to select plain text emails. That way bandwidth is mimimized AND I get to see the content. The email itself doesn't need to be formatted: the forum is formatted.

~R~

[MikeArmstrong]

I still wonder if the email notification template has changed, or if my system has changed...

BostonDan should be able to comfirm that for you.

Mike

[DanMarotta]

Hi Rich,

The community template has not changed. I believe Eudora went through some major updates and that's what you're experiencing.

The Content Display Controls is what will be of most interest to you.

-Dan

[Ninetrees]

Thanks, Dan. As I noted above, Eudora hasn't changed since 2006. But a Windows update may have caused the change. Wish that I had kept an earlier notification to see if there were changes that we aren't aware of.

At any rate, I prefer plain text emails. I just received an email from PTC: 8700 bytes + 7kB embedded image. Total actual content, including active links: 1300 bytes. Let's see, that comes to 15,700 bytes to transmit 1300 bytes of information. I prefer to receive the 1300...but there is no option to request plain text notifications. In a nation with acknowledged poor internet bandwidth, we contiually transmit unnecessarily bloated emails (not just PTC, certainly).

I send most of my emails out in plain text, formatting them only when I think there is a clear benefit...

~R~

[IRstuff]

Not to worry, the nation's bandwidth is, as always, driven by requirements for downloading porn, so your 15 kB is hardly making a ding in the overall traffic

TTFN

[AlvaroDíaz]

Remember that the protocol POP3 isn't right now the last, there are a new one, can't remember the name, and this is the principal reason to use newest versions for email clients -I don't think that it was because a windows update specifically.

Regards. Alvaro.