Inline PGP Within HTML

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:18:14AM -0500, David Engel wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 01:46:26PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:32:05PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 09:46:48PM -0500, David Engel wrote:
> > > > I've given up politely asking people to remember to send email as
> > > > either both text/html and text/plain or just text/plain when sending
> > > > to me.  It's a losing battle. :(
> >
> > You've given up *politely* asking? Meaning you are now asking
> > impolitely? :)
> 
> I do have to keep working with these people. :)
> 
> > > Yeah, I've been trying to explain this to some folks around here
> > > recently, but not having much success.  You have my sympathy.
> >
> > Agreed. It is frustrating. But Derek, please don't give up! Even in the
> > worst case scenario, we can slow the acceleration. I especially take the
> > time to choose the battles where the email is from an automated system.
> > I contact the support and send something like the following:
> >
> >   Could you please modify your automatic emails to also send a
> >   plain-text version in addition to the HTML email? This is easy to do
> >   and most professional emails provide a plain text version (this is
> >   called multi-part MIME).
> >
> >   If this doesn't make sense to you, please forward this request to your
> >   tech team.
> >
> >   Thanks for your time!
> 
> I have essentially done this but the problem keeps reoccurring.  I
> think part of the problem might be Outlook itself.  I vaguely recall
> seeing something about Outlook only sending both text/plain and
> text/html when those are the only two parts.  If another attachment is
> included, I seem to recall that one of the text parts got dropped.  I
> could be wrong, though.
> 
> I'm considering trying the polite approach again but this including
> the pointer to the integrated solution I tested.  Maybe I can start
> the change from the bottom up.

Makes sense. Good luck!

Scott