Kmail/Kontact question

[charlie]

On Saturday, February 23, 2019 2:45:17 AM PST Volker Wysk wrote:
> Am Freitag, 22. Februar 2019, 21:57:34 CET schrieb charlie:
> > On Friday, February 22, 2019 8:56:49 AM PST Volker Wysk wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > Am Freitag, 22. Februar 2019, 17:18:42 CET schrieb charlie:
> > > > Hey all. In Kmail/Kontact, in the email viewing section of the
> > > > program,
> > > > there's a black bar that says "HTML Message." I used to be able to
> > > > turn
> > > > that off but now I can't seem to find the option to do so anywhere in
> > > > this new version of Kubuntu. (19.04). Will this option return later on
> > > > in
> > > > a future update to the software? Almost all emails are composed as
> > > > HTML
> > > > these days and I'm ok with that because it's cool to have pics, links
> > > > and
> > > > all of that. I just don't the bar on the side.
> > > 
> > > What exactly do you want to turn off?
> > > 
> > > You can click on that "HTML Message" bar, in order to switch between
> > > HTML
> > > and plain text mode, when the message has HTML.
> > > 
> > > Bye
> > > V.W.
> > 
> > well, I don't want to switch back to plain text mode that's the issue. I
> > like the HTML version much better because I can see all of the media that
> > comes with the email and it downloads all of the pics automatically. The
> > option to turn off the sidebar was in the account settings but it's not
> > present here in 19.04. I just wanted to see if it was put in a different
> > place.
> 
> AFAIK, the plain text mode is preferred for security reasons. Probably
> that's the reason why the sidebar can't be turned off by default any
> longer.
> 
> Byd
> Volker
Oh, I see. I think I remember reading something about that very thing when I 
started using Kubuntu a couple of years ago. Must be the reason why some the 
messages still won't download the images automatically then. But that's ok. I 
understand the need for more security. Thanks for bringing that to my 
attention.