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Re:Use plaintext email by jve on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @07:40AM (#20514131)
Fair. I like that minimal formatting there anyway.

But often I have to communicate via email, report on complex issues, etc. It is nice to have some headings, tables, images in there.

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Re:Use plaintext email by DarkCrusader2 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @07:44AM (#20514168)
Agreed. As much as I like plain text email personally, having inline images etc. is really helpful sometimes.
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Re:Use plaintext email by mavhc on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @07:49AM (#20514200)
The key is sometimes. Plain text by default, rich text when required.

Software that would strip all html out of emails for security would be handy

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Re:Use plaintext email by u801e on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:06AM (#20514820)
Before MIME was common, people used to insert uuencoded data within the email message. IIRC, certain email clients would display the decoded content inline with the surrounding text.
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Re:Use plaintext email by C1sc0cat on Thursday July 25, 2019 @06:13AM (#20524120)
Why not use MS Word or some other tool designed for writing documents then ?
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