[ryanbrunner]

Emails can send in both formats for a single message, so it's possible and even likely that most mailing lists, etc. he receives send in both formats. In my experience, even most marketing e-mails are at least somewhat good about this. I'm 99% sure that Gmail will still send a plaintext e-mail inferred from your HTML content whenever you send, so it's not quite accurate to say it doesn't send in plaintext.

[alkonaut]

> I'm 99% sure that Gmail will still send a plaintext e-mail inferred from your HTML content whenever you send, so it's not quite accurate to say it doesn't send in plaintext.

I think that might be possible in the "old" gmail, I was referring to their newer "Inbox by gmail" client. I believe it never sends a text/plain email regardless of content (And it being their "newer" revamped client kind of shows what googles take on this is...)

[cozzyd]

I checked and, at least for a plaintext mesdage, Gmail on Android sends both plain text and HTML.

[alkonaut]

"gmail" and "inbox by gmail" are two different apps (on all platforms)

[proactivesvcs]

...and if you're PayPal or eBay, you offer the customer a choice of receiving plain text emails. Then you send them multipart emails with a blank text/plain part.

Not that this surprises me in the least :-)