How to generate html mime message?

[Amit Ramon]

Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> [2021-02-12 22:19 -0000]:

>On 2021-02-12, Paul Gilmartin via Mutt-users <mutt-users at mutt.org> wrote:
>> On 2021-02-12, at 03:15:00, Amit Ramon wrote:
>>> Peng Yu [2021-02-07 16:34 -0600]:
>>>
>>>> I just want to generate the HTML mine message. The instruction
>>>> requires the set up of mutt, which I want to avoid. Is
>>>> `bin/plain2html` for generating HTML mime message from a plain text?
>>>
>> But I wonder, "Why?"  Is there an email client so broken that it can't
>> simply handle text/plain content?
>
>Yes. In my experience the version of Outlook used in my office doesn't
>not work well at all with text/plain. It doesn't use a fixed font and
>it does something weird and unpredictabable with line endings.

What has pushed me to develop plainMail2HTML is the bad handling of
right-to-left languages in mail clients. For example, Gmail (web)
client need to be told (via settings) what language to use for its
UI. If it's, for example, English, then plain text in a RTL language will
be left aligned. If I set the language to Hebrew, then English plain text
will be right aligned. As most of my friends and colleagues of mine,
are using Gmail, sending them plain text would be inconvenient for
them.

--- Amit