[spauldo]

Ugh. It's weird because on the one hand, I'd love a text-only email world. On the other hand, I wish people would just admit defeat. We lost. HTML email is the norm. We need to accept it and move on.

Attitudes like this are what hold back a lot of the traditional email clients. Instead of just supporting text and claiming that's how the Internet should be, they should be adding HTML support so they can talk to 99% of email users out there. It's not like we don't know how to render HTML in a terminal.

I want to use Emacs for mail. I use it for everything else. I use Outlook because I need to see the rendered HTML my coworkers and vendors send me. And as long as people are sticking to this idea that email can only ever be text, I'll be stuck using Microsoft's brain-dead idea of what an email client should be.