If I had a dog in this fight, it would probably be a teacup-sized Chihuahua.
Having said that, if I had my way, emails would be entirely plain text; that would make my folders of searchable archived emails (at last count, about 35,000 for business purposes and another 15K for personal missives) much skinnier and more easily searchable. I have considered writing something to munge the HTML portions out of my saved emails, but considering the effort it would take and also considering that doing this would render them less defensible as true copies should the need ever arise, that’s a deferred project. And yet here I am sending this message via my iPad mail app. Oh, well... ..Allen > On Dec 9, 2019, at 05:06, Patrick Ben Koetter via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> > wrote: > > * Maarten Oelering via mailop <maar...@postmastery.net>: >> Multipart messages with html and text alternatives are generally considered >> best practice. Senders with html templates should add a text version is the >> common believe. >> >> But it's almost 2020, and we were wondering if there's still a good reason >> for adding plain text to a html message. Is there a significant audience >> reading in plain text? Is plain text important for accessibility? Because >> SpamAssassin says so? > > I'd say significant *and/or* important. Given the dominance of webmail clients > and the ongoing decline of desktop MUAs I'd say there's no significant > audience out there anymore. OTOH there's an important audience you probably > don't want to miss. Most of the (email) security foccussed people don't read > HTML only mail for all the known and well-discussed reasons. > > Our customers ask us to filter out marketing mail. Given the fact most > marketing mail comes HTML only this is an easy trigger to increase the > "classify as marketing mail" count. > > p@rick > > > -- > [*] sys4 AG > > https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 > Schleißheimer Straße 26/MG,80333 München > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 > Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer, Wolfgang Stief > Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein > > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop > > -- > This email was Virus checked by DSSC Solutions Company Security Gateway. -- This email was Virus checked by DSSC Solutions Company Security Gateway. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
