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I simply stopped reading HTML emails and read everything in plain text. Works fine for most of the emails I receive, the ones that don't are almost always marketing emails anyway.

I do realise clicking tracking links still works but they are way more visible in plain text mode and it's not that hard to copy & paste the relevant part of the link.

Too bad most email clients have removed plain text rendering these days. I also haven't found a good mobile plain text email client yet.

MailMate has a really nice feature when you can read your mails in plain text by default and toggle the HTML version on a per mail basis with a shortcut.




> Too bad most email clients have removed plain text rendering these days. I also haven't found a good mobile plain text email client yet.

eul [1] only has plain text rendering. It only supports Gmail right now, but a full-fledged email client is coming soon. A mobile app will be released in early 2018.

[1] https://eul.im


Sounds interesting. It looks like a one man show though. Is it open source/free software?


I use Thunderbird with automatically downloads disabled.

Same on GMail app.


Thunderbird with Simple HTML view is my favorite. It strips the remote content and fluff, while allowing simple things like bold and tables.


The only safe email is text-only email | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15224199 (Sep 2017)

Not too many metions of email clients except mutt and alpine.




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