Don&#x27;t MUA handle sending both plaintext and HTML well enough? Thunderbird seems to cope with that at least.<p>I think there is a tendency for minimalists to feel that others should conform to[wards] their ideal, whilst there are many aesthetics and there doesn&#x27;t appear to be a logical reason to choose one above another [in the general case] - one man&#x27;s cluttered is another&#x27;s functional, or whatever.<p>Way back in KDE3 days I was looking for a MUA to move to from Opera Mail and was auditioning KMail, the devs insisted that the display should not be allowed to handle sending HTML emails as a matter of principle. Since then it&#x27;s been a bit of a touchy subject for me ...