In a drupal 6.10 site with Foliage as the default theme, it has been observed that emails send by Simple News in html and Mime Mail where completly black, instead of the the expected behavior: using the same color as the web site, which are provided by css.

After a troubleshouting described in the following link, it has been suspected that Mime Mail takes into account a file from Foliage named print.css. This files seems to be used on request by Iceweasel to produce b/w printings.

http://drupal.org/node/436706#comment-1514386

People sending emails complain that numerous recipients will never click on a black link which is event not underlined. Those link to the sender web site allow to send shorter emails which are easier to read and more apreciated from recipients.

As they could also be a problem in Mime Mail module, the probleme will also be reported there.

http://drupal.org/node/443964

Comments

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jean-bernard.addor commented

The link should have been coded:
#443964: Skip style sheets with print media

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jean-bernard.addor commented

To avoid this problem with email, the following code in file print.css has been commented. Note that now, some text will appear in color in printing mode.

/*
* {
	color: #000 !important;
	background: #fff;
}
a, a:link, a:visited {
	text-decoration: none;
	font-weight: normal; 
}
*/

At the moment links in email are not underlined by the mouse.
Other modifications are also presented in a comment of the following issue:
http://drupal.org/node/445260#comment-1520844
#445260: Exemples of adaptation of foliage to particular web sites