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Michael Downey 🧢

@downey@floss.social · 2 weeks ago

Au contraire.

#HTMLEmail #email #plainText

Screenshot which reads: "To render properly in email clients, emails should have at least one text part; preferably a multipart containing a plain text and html version."

Then, highlighted in yellow: "The email contains plain text, no HTML. This can make the email less attractive to read." — Screenshot which reads: "To render properly in email clients, emails should have at least one text part; preferably a multipart containing a plain text and html version." Then, highlighted in yellow: "The email contains plain text, no HTML. This can make the email less attractive to read."

zbrown

@zbrown@floss.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@downey warning notwithstanding, what's the first point trying to get at?

I don't pretend to be an expert on MIME, but that seems needlessly oddly phrased. Are they trying to say that ideally an email should have content? I'd have thought that would be self-evident.

Or are they trying to re-enforce that emails should always have a text/pain part even in the presence of an HTML part?

EVERYTHING'S COMPUTER

@be@floss.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@downey What shit software inserted that warning?

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