Nylas-mail: Fixed width font for plain text email

[molstrangler]

Can we please have a monspaced font for emails in plain text.

Suggestion would be the Google web font 'Roboto Mono'.

[mbilker]

Thanks for the report @molstrangler. Due to the nature of email, not every message may have HTML, but those messages should be displayed in a non-monospace font. Currently, N1 obeys <pre> elements and displays those with a monospace font.

[molstrangler]

I think you at look too far up the model in your thinking, you are still talking as if the email contains HTML. Plain text emails are just that, no HTML just plain text.

Content-Type: text/plain

Which means the email contains no HTML, it is just plain old text. Some prefer to use plain/text because the email is very small in Kb and cannot contain any trackers, and more importantly no HTML.

I know you are building a HTML email client but all the the major email clients allow the user to create plain text email and display them using a fix font.

[rudolphpienaar]

+1

[pjssilva]

+1 Plain text is a must for a good email client.

[pierrebeaucamp]

I would love to see the ability to send text/plain emails. A lot of apps still offer better integration with emails when send using plaintext - for example Github, which is able to detect previous replies and email signatures if you reply to an issue. This behavior is broken using html emails.

[ArchangeGabriel]

Then maybe this should be split into two issues:

• supporting text/plain emails (especially for sending, I guess receiving works),
• allowing use of a monospace font to display them.

[darrenkenny]

One possibility on sending plain-text e-mails is to first check if there is any formatting applied to content that would require it - e.g. font variations, colors, etc.

I would also like to use mono-space fonts for displaying since so many e-mails I see day to day have space-indented text and/or ASCII art type drawings in them.