> On Aug 26, 2020, at 12:08, Chris Bennett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Can't get your email to go plain text, attachments work. > If they don't, why not change providers? > It's a bit of work, but almost anyone can setup their own email server > for next to nearly free.
I encourage everyone to do this, but they should have their eyes open that there *is* a cost in time (maintenance, updates, etc). Plus dealing with random places blocking you for no reason (I literally had one place tell me “everyone uses google, why don’t you?”). Also, the sending of the mail, as far as I understand, is basically identical for all the providers — it’s the mail client that formats the messages (though sometimes I craft messages and deliver them to OpenSMTPD directly without a “client” per se). And THAT is one of the biggest problems. I use Apple Mail (don’t hate on me, it’s what I use). One change they recently made was to remove the option of showing the paintext version of an email instead of the HTML version. Now I have no choice, and if I *really* want to see the plaintext message, I have to view source. This is not a rant against Apple (and for the love of god, don’t turn it into one), but rather a rant against all the “providers” who are trying to get everyone to use their “product” and damn the consequences of someone attaching 50MB of files/images in their messages, that’s not *their* problem (and fsck the infrastructure!). It’s screaming into the wind to complain. I used to rail against the bloat of browsers, and now you can run entire emulators in them. They’re HUGE. They do everything. Still. Run your own email server. You’ll learn a LOT! Sean
