On: Why Some Security Experts Use Mutt

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Do you wind up with plaintext emails that look gross when opened in Outlook?

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It is HTML emails that are gross, not plain text.

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Not necessarily for the Outlook users. The default setting of my Outlook was to ignore double line breaks and (paragraphs), which makes plain text mails less readable.

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Same for me, I cannot think of the use case for this - maybe it was introduced in the embrace/extend/extinguish era to nudge people into using Rich Text format emails?

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It is Outlook that is gross.

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Unfortunately, sometimes in the real world we don't all get to always choose our own tools.

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Sure, but you still shouldn't blame plain text for Outlook's failures.

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I didn't lay blame at all. I just asked: "Do you wind up with plaintext emails that look gross when opened in Outlook?"

My presumption, based on your defensiveness/evasiveness, is that the answer is "yes."

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Fine, but Outlook does not make plain text emails look nice.