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

[Dave Bergert]

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I have to disagree- I just sent a few emails from outlook - plain text, rich
text and html - and got:

:)


--DB

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry@vonahsen.com> wrote:

> 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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