KMail bloat

Thu Aug 7 11:41:50 UTC 2014

I recently noticed that email send through KMail seems somewhat bloated.
Eg I have sent a 1-line message "Testing ..." (plus signature)
through KMail and through mutt.
The two emails have sizes
  KMail 3408
  mutt  1836
The difference is due to the addition of the code below
at the end of the KMmail message.

Is this additional material a necessary consequence of using KMail?
or is it due to some configuration choice that I have inadvertently made?

Additional KMail code:
-------------------
--nextPart1556732.TjKetOXzTr
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
<html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Monospace'; font-size:16pt; font-
weight:400; font-style:normal;">
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-
right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Testing 
...</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; 
margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; 
">&nbsp;</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-
right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">-- </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-
right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Timothy 
Murphy  </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-
right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">e-mail: 
gayleard /at/ eircom.net</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-
right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">School of 
Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; 
margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; 
">&nbsp;</p></body></html>
--nextPart1556732.TjKetOXzTr--
-------------------

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland