alt Hacker NewsIf your e-mail is only text, then it should be plaintext. The receiver knows better than you what kind of formatting she would like to read it in.
If your e-mail is only text, then it should be plaintext. The receiver knows better than you what kind of formatting she would like to read it in.
The definition of "text" itself is quite vague. Is a code sample text? What about a series of code samples intercalated with common language descriptions? What about a numbered list? What about a poem?
Also, just because I send some text as HTML doesn't prevent in any way the receiver from formatting that however they want. I'm just adding some display hints, that their email client may or may not ignore.