I find the ones that try to be cute the most frustrating because these appear on the new message notifications so I can't just delete them straight from the notification.
replyWe'd love to share this exciting announcement but you'll a different email app.
Although I guess the argument will be that email clients should use AI to summarise the HTML into a plain text summary.
I had one who sent me the booking details of another client in the plaintext part. I reported it to them nearly a year ago and they didn't reply, so screw anonymity, it was Avis.
replyIf you're in EU or California, you should probably email the local data privacy official's offices about that.
replyMy favorite is when the plain text version is a bunch of css and html.
replySo I'm wondering a bit here - I've seen an implementation where emails to send only have html versions, but as part of the sending process the html is run through a Lynx browser process with the -dump command to get the plain text, which is included as the text/plain part of the email.
replyIs there actual value to this? e.g. Is the output of Lynx's text dump better for plain-text email clients than whatever they'd display for html emails?
I've personally converted html to plaintext with beautifulsoup in python, and used that as the plaintext version. Did not have complaints, but I honestly don't know who actually reads the non-html version.
replySome (old?) spam filters may be triggered by html only emails.
replythe best is when some put the same payload in the text/plain part as in the text/html part. yes. the html source. as text/plain.
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