Back before Notes/Domino had the ability to create MIME content natively, I sold lots of licenses to Midas based on the ability to create MIME e-mail easily (actually I still do, although not as many now), and one part that was usually a real eye-opener to potential customer was this ability to add a plain text part. It actually has two advantages. The first is that you can make the plain text version more coherent than it might otherwise be by default. The second was that you could make the HTML more rich knowing that you did not have to make it comprehensible to a user who only got the text part. I have long advocated thinking of the recipient experience twice, one for those who got the HTML, and another time for those who got the plain text.
Unfortunatelly, I didn't think about the Original HTML vs. Simple HTML issue. How much is stripped out in a "Simple HTML" message? Images? Links? If only images are stripped out, it wouldn't have as big an effect, but if links are stripped out, it would be a big issue.
Back before Notes/Domino had the ability to create MIME content natively, I sold lots of licenses to Midas based on the ability to create MIME e-mail easily (actually I still do, although not as many now), and one part that was usually a real eye-opener to potential customer was this ability to add a plain text part. It actually has two advantages. The first is that you can make the plain text version more coherent than it might otherwise be by default. The second was that you could make the HTML more rich knowing that you did not have to make it comprehensible to a user who only got the text part. I have long advocated thinking of the recipient experience twice, one for those who got the HTML, and another time for those who got the plain text.
Unfortunatelly, I didn't think about the Original HTML vs. Simple HTML issue. How much is stripped out in a "Simple HTML" message? Images? Links? If only images are stripped out, it wouldn't have as big an effect, but if links are stripped out, it would be a big issue.