Default Mail Format Thunderbird

[Albin Blaschka]

Hello,

I am not quite sure where I should communicate this idea, so I am 
starting here and I would like to know what others think about it ;-)

In my Thunderbird configuration, the default format for new mails is 
HTML and I think that's a not so good idea.

Mails should be in plain text format (in fact, I know some mailing lists 
where one will be banned for sending a HTML-Email...), as some 
mail-programm (MUA) might have problems to display them correctly 
(specially on the terminal), some spam-filters love to classify 
HTML-Emails as spam and they may even be a security problem, when for 
example a picture is not a real picture but a script...(at least this 
could be a privacy issue). Maybe some more reasons could be found 
(higher volume comes to my mind...).

Normal users I guess just do not care and because of the problems or at 
least resentment it may pose (sending HTML-Mails), what's about at least 
changing the default in Thunderbird (as a enthuiastic Thunderbird user, 
I do not know what's about Evolution...) to plain text format for mails? 
Is it possible? What do you, dear community, think about it? Or is it to 
patronising?

greetings,
Albin
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