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by Demiurge 4607 days ago
I don't think anyone is better off getting graphics and colors in their email, even if they enjoy it. After all, the email is supposed to inform of something. A website can be an interactive app, but email?

Also, text-only doesn't mean monospace. I'm happy to read email in whatever sans-serif font the email client picks, with nice whitespacing.
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toki5 4607 days ago
>A website can be an interactive app, but email?

Fortunately, most e-mail clients support a "show this e-mail in text only" view mode. This means that you can have it your way, and others can have it theirs!

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unsignedint 4607 days ago
The problem is that "show this E-mail in text only" relies on the fact that whatever they use send out the E-mail also sends plain text as well as HTML as a multipart. I find most of places do that, but there are some services/implementations that simply sends out HTML, pretty much leaving it up to the mailer to interpret that E-mail.

Either you will be sending in HTML or plain text, I feel there shouldn't be any excuse of not attaching plain text version of it.

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Demiurge 4607 days ago
Yeah, I do that every time!
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