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Neomail Patches

Neomail is an excellent, free webmail product. It only has two minor flaws: it will not display html mail (with reasons, see the FAQ), and it does not use fixed-width fonts for displaying the message. As much as I buy Ernie's arguments against html email, it seems he has been around long enough to realize that email must be displayed with a fixed width as God intended. This allows simple tables to be displayed.

Here are the changes necessary to get a fixed width display:

• in each style, add the following:
  • td.message_body {font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt; }
  • A.fixed:link { font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; color: blue
  • A.fixed:visited { font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; color: blue
  • A.fixed:hover { font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; color: blue
• in readmessage.template add class=message_body to the <td> above @@@BODY@@@
• in composemessage.template add class=message_body to the <td> above @@@BODYAREA@@@
• in neomail.pl search for TARGET and add CLASS=fixed to the beginning of the tag (directly after <A ). In my version (1.25) this is on lines 1090, 1092, 1131, and 1133.
  Note: When changing neomail.pl make sure you've a copy in case something goes wrong!

That's it. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1 for Cascading Style Sheet details.