A computor dummy, what is the difference betweem HTML mail and plain text mail.?

Question

I understand what is plain text mail, but how does sending mail in HTML differ from plain text mail
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Answer 1

Plain text is just what it says, Plain.

You can not edit it in anyway, embed pictures(although you can attach them) or change font styles, sizes or even the fonts themselves. Because of it's simplicity, plain text is compatible with all email clients.

HTML on the other hand is much more complex. It uses something called tags to edit and manipulate how your message will look.

Answer 2

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It's the way web pages such as this one are encoded to handle things like bold, italics and even color text red.

Plain text is, well, it's plain.

There are reasons and times you might want to use both. Switching's not hard, if you know where to look.



Plain Text and HTML

In the beginning (so to speak) there was plain text. Quite literally, plain text is text, and only text, along with a couple of simple representations for things like end-of-line.

Plain text has no formatting. Plain text typically is represented as looking very plain. It's often displayed using what's called a "mono-spaced" font - meaning that each character takes up the same space on the line. Here's an example:

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.


HTML started as the way to describe how web pages should look. It includes ways to specify formatting, colors, positioning, and some amount of layout. As email became more popular, people started wanting to make their messages "look" as nice as they felt web pages looked. They wanted that formatting, the ability to put in pictures, and the like.

Answer 3

From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_e-mail ):

"HTML email is the use of a subset of HTML (often ill-defined) to provide formatting and semantic markup capabilities in email that are not available with plain text.

Most graphical e-mail clients support HTML email, and many default to it.[1] Many of these clients include both a GUI editor for composing HTML e-mails and a rendering engine for displaying received HTML e-mails.

HTML mail allows the sender to properly express headings, bulleted lists, emphasized text, subscripts and superscripts, and other visual and typographic cues to improve the readability and aesthetics of the message. Long URLs can be linked to without being broken into multiple pieces, and text is wrapped to fit the width of the user agent's viewport, instead of uniformly breaking each line at 78 characters (defined in RFC 2822, which was necessary on older data terminals). It allows in-line inclusion of diagrams or mathematical formula as images, which are otherwise difficult to convey (typically using ASCII art)."

So... why should you use Plain Text instead of HTML ?

Check under 'Security vulnerabilities' in the same article.

Answer 4

In HTML the sender can tell when you open it by putting code in the body, in plain text you can read everything in it...nothing hidden. With junk mail they use HTML to make sure they are sending to a live address. and just keep sending the junk,

Answer 5

"undeniable" textual content textile digital mail ability you get carry of the digital mail with purely words, no photos. "HTML" digital mail ability you will locate photos in the digital mail. you apart from mght can click on weblinks particularly of copying and pasting them on your internet browser.

Answer 6

plain text will have no embedded graphics ... its easier on a dialup settup ..