* Maarten Oelering via mailop <[email protected]>: > Multipart messages with html and text alternatives are generally considered > best practice. Senders with html templates should add a text version is the > common believe. > > But it's almost 2020, and we were wondering if there's still a good reason > for adding plain text to a html message. Is there a significant audience > reading in plain text? Is plain text important for accessibility? Because > SpamAssassin says so?
I'd say significant *and/or* important. Given the dominance of webmail clients and the ongoing decline of desktop MUAs I'd say there's no significant audience out there anymore. OTOH there's an important audience you probably don't want to miss. Most of the (email) security foccussed people don't read HTML only mail for all the known and well-discussed reasons. Our customers ask us to filter out marketing mail. Given the fact most marketing mail comes HTML only this is an easy trigger to increase the "classify as marketing mail" count. p@rick -- [*] sys4 AG https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Schleißheimer Straße 26/MG,80333 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer, Wolfgang Stief Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
