I personally write email messages in plain text, and don't include html
in my messages unless absolutely necessary. I read messages in plain
text when possible (98% of all email I get is composed of pure text with
some minor aesthetic html imrovement). Considering the text part of a
message is so small in size (some provider's headers are larger than the
text part!!!), and being so important for automated analysis, not to
mention convenience and politeness to those who can't/won't open their
emails in html format, I don't see the point in not including both html
and txt parts.
Just my 0.02€
Ignacio
El 09/12/2019 a las 18:00, Allen Kitchen via mailop escribió:
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
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