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I was always a strong advocate for plain text emails. Because for many years my mail client was Mutt, I saw everything plain text. Now that clients are graphica
by davidcollantes 7y ago
I was always a strong advocate for plain text emails. Because for many years my mail client was Mutt, I saw everything plain text. Now that clients are graphical, it bothers me to know others might be reading my plain text emails with a "Times New Roman" font, and not a monospaced (as god intended it to be).
So, to avoid that, I use HTML on my emails. Yes, it makes them a bit bigger. Yes, they go against my very belief. Yet, they look like I want them to be seeing.
- ignaloidas 7y agoHave you thought that others may not want to see your emails as you intended?
- davidcollantes 7y agoEnd recipients can always overwrite, no?
- ignaloidas 7y agooverwriting HTML styles is harder than setting how to format plaintext. HTML styling has order of magnitude more customization options than plaintext, which has three that I can think of: font, font size, tab width. Almost all clients have customization for plaintext, I haven't seen one that can override HTML customizations.