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by segfaultbuserr 2476 days ago
> Can I email plaintext?

> No results found. Why not suggest this feature to be added?

It's worth sending a pull-request.

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I wonder what content-types email clients support besides HTML and plaintext. Would any support mp3, mp4, markdown, org or odt?

EDIT: Hmmm found this[1], and this[2]. They talk about using TROFF, TEX, Postscript, voice data, etc. I wonder if something like that ended up implemented somewhere.

EDIT 2: I opened an issue[3].

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1049

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc767

[3] https://github.com/hteumeuleu/caniemail/issues/23

E-Mails typeset in TeX sounds amazing! Right now you'd have to compile your TeX code to PDF/PS/DjVu and send that, which is far from perfect.
And imagine opening an E-mail that contains a PhD paper requires 15 minutes of compilation...
Plaintext? Is that a new CSS framework? /jk

Very few enterprises these days provide a “Text only, please” option in their E-Mail subscription options. Jira is, by all means, terrible software, but at least they do have this feature. I guess it's one of those situations where few people understand what it is and why you would want that. And even less people who care.