Varying Text Quality on Thread Subscription Email Notifications

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**thunderingjove**

I signed up for Dakkadakka to send me email notifications whenever a subscribed thread to updated. In the bodies of these emails is the text of the update. However, not all emails are readable; some of them are full of text jargon. Why is this and how do I correct it?

**legoburner**

It is probably your email provider not supporting HTML emails (usually for security reasons). Could you copy an example into a post here so that I can see for sure?

**thunderingjove**

legoburner wrote:It is probably your email provider not supporting HTML emails (usually for security reasons). Could you copy an example into a post here so that I can see for sure?

I don't think it's an issue of support from the email provider; sometimes I can see the text without code, sometimes not.

Here is a same of a code-heavy email:

from my email: wrote:<html>
<head>
<base href="http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/">
<style type="text/css">@import url( http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum//templates/default/styles/style.css );</style>
</head>
<body>
Kroothawk wrote:. Not mentioning Ork second wave and Ork Stompa and soon Ork Bomba/Figha.

not that soon

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Read this topic online: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/371300.page#3906150

Unsubscribe from this topic: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/unwatch/371300.page

</body>
</html>

See the above, now imagine no formatting, one big paragraph, and no space between codes (the thread here autocorrects).

**legoburner**

is it for all types of mails, or just thread subscriptions, and if just thread subscriptions, does it show this with consistent or inconsistent behaviour?

**thunderingjove**

I should have, but haven't, tracked it consistently. But of the emails I have seen recently, it seems the threads I start have clean text, and those I respond to have a lot of code.