[QCLUG] Getting smilies to work in Kmail or other email readers

[Barry Von Ahsen]

unless it comes from outlook, then it's

<font face="windings">J</font>

took me a while to figure out why coworkers would end sentences with 
just J, since I read text-only :)

-barry


Dave Bergert wrote:
> I used mutt when in a terminal or Thunderbird in Xwindows.
> 
> You Windows Friends should protect themselves: Also this is a good article
> on that note: You're Not Paranoid, Your Antivirus Just Doesn't Work Well -
> http://www.darkreading.com/blog/archives/2009/01/dont_worry_your.html
> 
> Emoticions are just text chars that certain programs replace with animated
> graphics.
> 
> --DB
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Robert Jones <Robert@rm-jones.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Mark.  That's one way to do it but I will probably be to lazy.
>> What email program do you recommend?  Follow up question is does it have
>> a way to check for virus' to protect my Windows using friends and does
>> it have emoticon's?
>>
>> Mark Riedesel wrote:
>>
>>> It doesn't appear as though KMail has an emoticon insertion panel of any
>>> sort. There's always emoticon cheat sheets like this one
>>> http://factoryjoe.com/projects/emoticons/
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Robert Jones <Robert@rm-jones.com<mailto:
>>> Robert@rm-jones.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    I mailed this earlier but used the wrong return address So will
>>>    re-send using the correct one.  Sorry about the duplication if you
>>>    receive both.
>>>
>>>    This question kind of ties in with my previous email asking for
>>>    help with anti-virus software.
>>>    I have been using Thunderbird to read my email.  I like it fine
>>>    and like to use the smilies.  Since I am having problems with
>>>    ClamAV and Firefox I tried using Kmail.  I like it fine except a
>>>    couple of thing, the biggest of which is I can't find a way to use
>>>    smilies (except to remember all the code like :-) to put them in).
>>>     Does anyone know how to install an add-on to Kmail to have
>>>    smilies available?  Or, does anyone know an email reader that has
>>>    smilies and that an anti-virus program will work with?
>>>
>>>    I have done a lot of Googling but can't seem to find an answer so
>>>    I guess it's time to ask for help.
>>>
>>>    Thanks for the assistance.
>>>    Bob Jones
>>>
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