<p>I suspect you are a very small minority though - most people that don't know how to do it are unlikely to even know that it's an option or want to see anything other than HTML.</p>
<p>The set of people that prefer text is probably very small these days, and the subset of those that aren't able to tell their email client that is even smaller.</p>
<p>I don't really have an objection to providing the option in principle but it's quite a large patch which (on a quick review) needed some work so I wanted to canvas people's opinion on the general concept before reviewing it in detail.</p>

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