On 2 Sep 2025 19:14, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
Andrey Semashev wrote:
Multipart email is problematic because clients tend to try and display the HTML version, and then butcher the original message when one tries to reply, leaving it to the responder to deal with this mess manually. No HTML, please, plain text only.
Clients can be configured to display plain text. I've set mine to do exactly that.
This doesn't work well because some messages I receive are barely readable as plain text, if at all. Those are messages from various online services and stores, and some bug trackers (e.g. Jira from Qt). Those are usually messages that you aren't supposed to reply directly, so HTML doesn't pose a problem there. It would've helped if there was a way to set the preference on per-folder granularity, but I can't see such a way in the email clients I use.