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I'm being sent an email which offers alternate views: plain text and HTML. The two views have slightly different content. I want to read the plain text view, not any rendering of the HTML view.
When I select 'read all messages as plain text' in the Trust Center, it seems to show a plain-text rendering of the HTML view.
How can I read the plain text view of the email?
This is absurdly wrong. The HTML portion of an email is attached as an option component, email operates on a text protocol. It is possible for someone not to make a plain text version of an email, but this is rare as plain text is the default mode for rendering emails while HTML is allowed to be included and may or may not be rendered by a client. – CoryG – 2017-10-13T17:30:30.620
6The one sent email has two views. Everything Outlook would need to display the text-only content (which differs from the HTML content) is in the email. Everything Outlook would need to display the HTML content is in the email. – lance – 2012-04-10T21:23:11.403
Have you seen this work before? Maybe it has something to do with how the message was written. – CharlieRB – 2012-04-11T00:42:05.030
1My expectation that Outlook is capable of this is based only on my having seen competitors do this years ago (but maybe not these days?). There used to be options by which the user of the email client could specify whether she wanted to see plainText or HTML views of emails which contained both content types/views. Outlook doesn't seem to be giving me that option. The 'read all messages as plain text' security feature shows a stripped-down version of the HTML content/view. – lance – 2012-04-11T11:51:26.703