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What I'd like to see is a way to turn on plaintext email replies only for certain recipients. I know you can't do that in Outlook it's a global setting or nothi

What I'd like to see is a way to turn on plaintext email replies only for certain recipients. I know you can't do that in Outlook it's a global setting or nothing - can any other (non-cloud) email client do it?

ddevault 6y ago
You really shouldn't send plaintext emails to anyone at all. It's rude.
- webmaven 6y ago
  > You really shouldn't send plaintext emails to anyone at all. It's rude. Is this sarcasm? Because I know folks that consider anything but plain text emails to be rude.
  - ddevault 6y ago
    Erp, it was a typo. Sending HTML emails to anyone is rude.
- Jaruzel 6y ago
  To people, I agree. But we're talking mailing lists here, where plaintext is preferred.
gpanders 6y ago
mutt can probably do something like this with its send-hook [1] feature. Another alternative is to send emails as multipart/alternative with a plaintext part and an HTML part. That way, recipients who use an HTML email client will see the HTML and plaintext readers will see plaintext. This is what I do at work. My work uses Outlook which does not support format=flowed [2], meaning my plaintext emails would look weird to colleagues who use the standard Outlook settings. Outlook will also default to responding in plaintext to a plaintext email. To avoid forcing my preferences on my colleagues, I now use an automatic filter [3] to convert my plaintext emails into HTML using a Markdown parser. My email client then sends both parts: the HTML and plaintext part as a multipart/alternative email. [1]: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#send-hook http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#send-hook [2]: https://joeclark.org/ffaq.html https://joeclark.org/ffaq.html [3]: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#send-multipart-alternative-filter http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#send-multipart-alternative-f...
layer8 6y ago
While you can‘t configure it per recipient in Outlook, changing the message format is basically a single click in the message editor (you may even be able to bind it to a keyboard shortcut). Talking about desktop Windows Outlook here.
- Jaruzel 6y ago
  Yeah that's what I do. Next question.... overriding reply-on-top for mailing list replies? :)
  - layer8 6y ago
    I use mutt for that. ;)
pgcj_poster 6y ago
Thunderbird has a checkbox in its address book for if a contact prefers plaintext.

ddevault 6y ago

You really shouldn't send plaintext emails to anyone at all. It's rude.

webmaven 6y ago
> You really shouldn't send plaintext emails to anyone at all. It's rude. Is this sarcasm? Because I know folks that consider anything but plain text emails to be rude.
- ddevault 6y ago
  Erp, it was a typo. Sending HTML emails to anyone is rude.
Jaruzel 6y ago
To people, I agree. But we're talking mailing lists here, where plaintext is preferred.

gpanders 6y ago

mutt can probably do something like this with its send-hook [1] feature. Another alternative is to send emails as multipart/alternative with a plaintext part and an HTML part. That way, recipients who use an HTML email client will see the HTML and plaintext readers will see plaintext. This is what I do at work. My work uses Outlook which does not support format=flowed [2], meaning my plaintext emails would look weird to colleagues who use the standard Outlook settings. Outlook will also default to responding in plaintext to a plaintext email. To avoid forcing my preferences on my colleagues, I now use an automatic filter [3] to convert my plaintext emails into HTML using a Markdown parser. My email client then sends both parts: the HTML and plaintext part as a multipart/alternative email. [1]: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#send-hook http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#send-hook [2]: https://joeclark.org/ffaq.html https://joeclark.org/ffaq.html [3]: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#send-multipart-alternative-filter http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#send-multipart-alternative-f...

layer8 6y ago

While you can‘t configure it per recipient in Outlook, changing the message format is basically a single click in the message editor (you may even be able to bind it to a keyboard shortcut). Talking about desktop Windows Outlook here.

Jaruzel 6y ago
Yeah that's what I do. Next question.... overriding reply-on-top for mailing list replies? :)
- layer8 6y ago
  I use mutt for that. ;)

pgcj_poster 6y ago

Thunderbird has a checkbox in its address book for if a contact prefers plaintext.