[thelist] CSS in HTML E-mail?

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 11:15 -0800, Administrative HQ wrote:
> I need to create an HTML e-mail and received some samples of the kind
> of thing that is needed. They were quite well done, but I was somewhat
> surprised to see CSS used for the font styles etc.

> Is that a good idea? That is, can the various e-mail clients be relied
> upon to handle CSS correctly (or at all), or is it safer to use basic
> HTML for e-mail?

Not sure about e-mail clients, but for a very long time one of my spam
filters was to drop all HTML only e-mail or multipart/alternative
straight into the trash. False positives weren't a number large enough
to matter, as I simply told the legitimate senders to only send in plain
text and most of them got the message.

It's safest to use basic *plain text* for e-mail, which has worked well
since the 1970s (or whenever the first e-mail was sent).

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>