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Wasn’t text/html intended as an optional enhancement too? But most of the emails I receive are only text/html - no text/plain alternative, which would be displa

Wasn’t text/html intended as an optional enhancement too? But most of the emails I receive are only text/html - no text/plain alternative, which would be displayed if available. I fully expect text/x-amp-html only emails in the future, and so should you. FastMail, please give me a way to permanently block AMP only emails. Just throw them away with a Mailer Demon reply. If there’s other versions, strip away the AMP version.

4ad 9y ago
> But most of the emails I receive are only text/html - no text/plain alternative Care to elaborate on that? Virtually every email I get has a plain text version (I can't even see HTML email). I don't think the email I get is particularly selective. The only pure HTML email that I ever get is spam.
- ancarda 9y ago
  Sorry for the delay in replying, I don’t check my comments very frequently. Usually only in the morning. I use mutt for emails, so believe me — I know when I get a text/html only email as mutt can’t display the text/plain version. Most emails I get from friends and so on are in text/plain as mail clients do a decent enough job at including that. However most of my mail isn’t from people I know, it’s from newsletters and notifications. A lot of it is text/html only, either because the programmer who created and sent that email didn’t want (or know) to include a text/plain version, or didn’t care to.
e12e 9y ago
"most" (of the mail you want to read/reply to) sounds a bit extreme - afaik both Google and outlook/exchange/office365 will supply a semblance of a text part unless you go out of your way to avoid it. As we as most real mail clients. You could always just bounce mail w/o a sensible text part...
- ancarda 9y ago
  >bounce mail w/o a sensible text part Hmm... I’d like to, but I’m not sure how I’d do that on FastMail. Eventually I may host my own emails, but until that day, I can’t really do much about this problem. Maybe I could have an IMAP client on a server that is constantly connected to FastMail and looks at incoming emails to file them into an “HTML only” mailbox if they don’t contain a text/plain version? I can read those emails from the FastMail Web Interface
  - e12e 9y ago
    I've not used sieve, but afaik fastmail supports sieve, and according to this: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5173 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5173 It might be possible to match on non-empty text/plain?

4ad 9y ago

> But most of the emails I receive are only text/html - no text/plain alternative Care to elaborate on that? Virtually every email I get has a plain text version (I can't even see HTML email). I don't think the email I get is particularly selective. The only pure HTML email that I ever get is spam.

ancarda 9y ago
Sorry for the delay in replying, I don’t check my comments very frequently. Usually only in the morning. I use mutt for emails, so believe me — I know when I get a text/html only email as mutt can’t display the text/plain version. Most emails I get from friends and so on are in text/plain as mail clients do a decent enough job at including that. However most of my mail isn’t from people I know, it’s from newsletters and notifications. A lot of it is text/html only, either because the programmer who created and sent that email didn’t want (or know) to include a text/plain version, or didn’t care to.

e12e 9y ago

"most" (of the mail you want to read/reply to) sounds a bit extreme - afaik both Google and outlook/exchange/office365 will supply a semblance of a text part unless you go out of your way to avoid it. As we as most real mail clients. You could always just bounce mail w/o a sensible text part...

ancarda 9y ago
>bounce mail w/o a sensible text part Hmm... I’d like to, but I’m not sure how I’d do that on FastMail. Eventually I may host my own emails, but until that day, I can’t really do much about this problem. Maybe I could have an IMAP client on a server that is constantly connected to FastMail and looks at incoming emails to file them into an “HTML only” mailbox if they don’t contain a text/plain version? I can read those emails from the FastMail Web Interface
- e12e 9y ago
  I've not used sieve, but afaik fastmail supports sieve, and according to this: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5173 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5173 It might be possible to match on non-empty text/plain?