This two-faced plain text/HTML trick doesn't always work, but when it does it's success is due to what is called MIME content type multipart alternative. The e-mail message includes both plain text for old programs and HTML for the newer programs.
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HTML e-mail is the use of a subset of HTML (often ill-defined) to provide formatting and semantic markup capabilities in e-mail that are not available with plain text. Most graphical e-mail clients s...
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I'm trying to send an html/plain text email for an invoice program I am writing. I really want the html message because it offers better layout options for invoicing and some features ... However, some email clients don't work with html email -- especially web mail. So I need the alternative plain text email in those cases.
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Note: A signature that features color and/or different fonts requires color and graphics mode if you want the signature to be sent and viewed in color. ... How will color and graphics messages look for AOL users? Messages viewed using a version older than AOL 8.0 will be displayed in plain text without formatting.
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Previous message: [OU] Re: HTML mail vs. plain text ... There are two different principles at issue here: The legal issue and the moral issue. Remember that there may be innocent women and children riding in the car you feel justified in smashing into. BTW, did you happen to be in Mai Lai or someplace where a similar...
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Previous message: [OU] Re: HTML mail vs. plain text ... >From what I've seen, I tend to disagree that the comments (yes, there are 2 - from different users) displayed here warrant the removal of anyone from the list. Although the HTML email thread was semi-offtopic (the relation to M2 is still perfectly clear),
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I wasn't able to find a way to set Mozilla Thunderbird to view HTML mail from sources you trust and plain-text messages from everyone else. You can make the view change globally in Thunderbird ... But it sure knows what it would like one running Chrome OS to resemble, and that's a little different from the Netbook of today.
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send an enhanced HTML email or a plain text email. ... specify a different character set for the mail (useful for languages with special characters)
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If the performer of a notification has a notification preference of plain text mail with HTML attachments (MAILATTH), when a notification mailer processes the notification, it generates a plain text e-mail notification with HTML attachments and sends it to the performer role.
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Certainly in highly sensitive areas, I would expect HTML to be disabled as no risk is acceptable, especially one that can be so easily worked around. However, personally, I deal with HTML email all the time. I prefer to send plain text, but for different reasons:
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