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I am subscribed to two or three sites.
I changed my mail system. And instead of seeing my emails from a webmail, I'm seeing it directly on my computer.
But it is very uncomfortable to see the emails in HTML format.
Can I change it so that the Stack Exchange emails I receive are in plain text?
Stack Exchange generally sends all emails in both HTML and plain text format. For example, here's a segment from a raw email that they recently sent me:
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Mime-Version: 1.0
1 new item in your Stack Exchange inbox
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Mime-Version: 1.0
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=3D"en" xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:o=3D"urn:sch=
emas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"=
>
You can see that it includes a simplified plain text version of the email before the HTML version.
There is no option to change the format Stack Exchange sends you, but your email client may have an option to display the plain text version instead.
