The only safe email is text-only email

Re:The only safe email is text-only email by ryanbrunner on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @07:21AM (#15226393)

Emails can send in both formats for a single message, so it's possible and even likely that most mailing lists, etc. he receives send in both formats. In my experience, even most marketing e-mails are at least somewhat good about this. I'm 99% sure that Gmail will still send a plaintext e-mail inferred from your HTML content whenever you send, so it's not quite accurate to say it doesn't send in plaintext.

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Re:The only safe email is text-only email by alkonaut on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @07:28AM (#15226413)

> I'm 99% sure that Gmail will still send a plaintext e-mail inferred from your HTML content whenever you send, so it's not quite accurate to say it doesn't send in plaintext.

I think that might be possible in the "old" gmail, I was referring to their newer "Inbox by gmail" client. I believe it never sends a text/plain email regardless of content (And it being their "newer" revamped client kind of shows what googles take on this is...)

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Re:The only safe email is text-only email by cozzyd on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @08:56AM (#15226869)

I checked and, at least for a plaintext mesdage, Gmail on Android sends both plain text and HTML.

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Re:The only safe email is text-only email by alkonaut on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @05:24PM (#15232913)

"gmail" and "inbox by gmail" are two different apps (on all platforms)

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Re:The only safe email is text-only email by proactivesvcs on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:57PM (#15232619)

...and if you're PayPal or eBay, you offer the customer a choice of receiving plain text emails. Then you send them multipart emails with a blank text/plain part.

Not that this surprises me in the least :-)

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