Tuesday, April 12, 2016

How to Send Plain Text in Yahoo Mail

Nearly everyone likes to see pictures and other graphics in their email. While there are reasons not view all the graphics, most email clients (programs) have options to read and send email in plain text.

When using a Yahoo Group or another list to download emails/posts may always be read and sent using plain text as some lists do not allow graphics of any kind for security reasons.

WebMail for Yahoo.

I sent a graphics laden email to my Yahoo account. Here is just part of it.



Next I forwarded it to another of my oh so many email accounts and switched to plain text. Note the arrows at the bottom:



Enlarge the screenshots to see details.

Now the text reads like this:



Note, there is no HTML gibberish attached.

Outlook.com

Enlarge to see the details and note Options/Plain text.



Gmail



Again, enlarge to see the details.

If you have stationary installed, this will also cause gibberish to be appended to your messages.

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