HTML vs TEXT

Sometimes, it depends on how you have your email set up. If you have it set up to receive text only email, then that's all it will receive. We have ours set up for html formatted emails and haven't had a problem. Some people might. As far as one being better than the other, personally, I believe that it's a matter of personal preference.

There are a couple of reasons someone might use text vs html. Text takes lest time to download and less room. However then you can't receive graphics. Some companies have text only so graphics and things son't bog down the server.
Hope this helps!

There are good points and bad points to both text and HTML emails.

With text emails you can be pretty sure that everyone that has an email account will be able to receive your message pretty much as you intended it to look. From your lowliest email capable pagers all the way up to the high end email clients such as Outlook. However, you really can't do much w/ the message in regards to formatting.

HTML messages allow you to do a lot more formatting, including "in-line" web pages. However, not everyone can receive HTML emails. Unfortunately I don't have any firm numbers on HTML email capable programs market saturation, but to take a very conservative guess I would say its quite good -- on the order of 60% or higher (probably much higher).

However, one major potential drawback of HTML emails is also one of their features. With Outlook and Outlook Express (two of the most popular clients) and perhaps some other MS based HTML capable clients there is a security risk fromviruses and malicious code because they can execute scripts imbedded in the message. Now if you take the proper security precautions its not a problem, but a lot of people don't.

Personally, I would set your client to receive both.

-Heath

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