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I assume most email client support email with both html and txt content. If they don't support html or configured not to display it, the txt version is displayed.

We have a html and txt template for each email we send. It's not exactly double the work, but it's appreciated by some of our customers.

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I have my email client configured to display messages as plain text. A large fraction of emails that I receive have a text part that is empty or has some placeholder text. Also, senders often generate the text version by taking the HTML version and just stripping all tags, which means that all links are removed. I wish I could configure my client to ignore the text part completely, and instead to convert the HTML part to plain text, which is what it is doing already if there is no text part.

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