On 2021-02-12, Paul Gilmartin via Mutt-users <mutt-users@mutt.org> wrote: > On 2021-02-12, at 03:15:00, Amit Ramon wrote: >> Peng Yu [2021-02-07 16:34 -0600]: >> >>> I just want to generate the HTML mine message. The instruction >>> requires the set up of mutt, which I want to avoid. Is >>> `bin/plain2html` for generating HTML mime message from a plain text? >> > But I wonder, "Why?" Is there an email client so broken that it can't > simply handle text/plain content?
Yes. In my experience the version of Outlook used in my office doesn't not work well at all with text/plain. It doesn't use a fixed font and it does something weird and unpredictabable with line endings. I finally gave up and started using muttdown to send multipart/alternative email in plaintext and html. After a couple years of that, they turned of the SMTP server, so you can only use Outlook or the OWA web API. No more using mutt for work... -- Grant
