From day one onwards, I support text-based email clients as opposed to HTML-based counterparts. In the light of spamming activities, Internet fraud and spreading of malicious software, it is good time for users to think about this question again. There are a lot of risks with HTML email clients. I just name the apparent one:
1. HTML-based clients can download malicious software in background once an email is opened.
2. Phishing and identity theft are all done on HTML contents.
3. Spammers can track if the recipient email address is valid because the URL links can embedded the recipient address and send out to the spammer's host automatically.
Apart from security concern, there is the supporting argument HTML emails increase the byte size and occupy more bandwidth due to cosmetic effect. However, these days, with large bandwidth available and huge hard disk space, will anyone care about this.
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