Comments for Why does my HTML email look different to the recipient than it does to me?

Comment from Mark on 2010-03-17

2010-03-17T09:18:09Z

Most email programs give you the option to sent the emails in html and plain text at the same time. If you feel you need to send html this is a good compromise. Also most emails let you decide whether to sent html or plain text depending on who's receiving it. So if you have a person complain that they can't read your emails go into the address book and set the receiving format to plain text for that person.

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Comment from Centurian on 2008-04-04

2008-04-04T23:26:37Z

I am sorry, but your answer is an old wife's tail. The simple proof is that if I put the formatted message in a word document and have a friend use it to copy the formated text into a message and send it to me, my email program, outlook has no problem showing it. The problem only shows up with one's own emails. I have received many heavily formatted emails from others without losing any of the formatting. But my own messages lose the most basic formatting when copied to myself. The other receipient has no problem with it regardless of whether he is using Outlook or not.

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Comment from ks_imes on 2008-02-22

2008-02-23T07:03:17Z

Dear Mr. Notenboom,

Thanks for your essay. Your essays are always clear, useful and informative. I love them.

I agree with you 99% on this essay and your opinion is exactly what I usually say to my friends.

However in some cases I must use HTML only because of the problem of encoding.

Some web-mail services do not support special encoding like Arabic, nor Unicode. And when I write in Arabic using plain text on web-mail system the recipients usually can not read the content.

However when I write in Arabic using HTML style the recipients most probably can read it. I don't know the technical reason but it works!

So sometimes I could not help using HTML style.

Just for your information.

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