On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Michael Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > Gmail takes all sorts of liberties to make plain text readable. My own > plain text posting looks like html to me in the gmail webpage now. > > I really have no idea what is going on with so much that is online. Every > time I hit send it is an act of faith.
Gmail on the web desktop typically sends both plain text and HTML alternatives, but you can choose text. I concur that I see no option on android gmail to request plain text, but in my testing it sends both plain text and HTML just like the web desktop version. There's a "show original message" you can use in gmail to see what the raw message that was sent looked like. Looking at the mail I sent starting my thread about dissimilar voltages shows the alternative, of which only the non-HTML version made it to the list: From: Michael K Johnson <[email protected]> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c356d27e0a0804f1718f7a --001a11c356d27e0a0804f1718f7a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I am powering my 48V lawn tractor conversion with four Deka Intimidator ... "float" indefinitely. --001a11c356d27e0a0804f1718f7a Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div>I am powering my 48V lawn tractor conversion wit= ... <br></div><br></div> --001a11c356d27e0a0804f1718f7a-- Hope that helps! _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
