For every HTML email sent by WordPress it will provide text alternative . 99% of all email clients will just show the HTML of the email.
The major benefit of this plugin come from the fact that will reduce the chances of the emails you send ending up in the spam folder..
In your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins > New Plugin, search for Add Plain Text Email and click.
Alternatively, download the plugin and upload the contents of add-plain-text-email zip to your plugins directory.
Both plugins achieve the same thing and use the same approach, however his strips html tags from the version to create the version.
In contrast mine uses more advanced approach using Jevon Wrights Html2Text library, thus includes links and other whilst still producing text alternative. http wiki apache org spamassassin Rules MIME HTML ONLY..
Alternatively others offer Show Original function where you can view the email ...
DKIM SIGNED, DKIM VALID, DKIM VALID AU, HTML MESSAGE, HTML MIME NO HTML TAG, MIME HTML ONLY, SPF PASS.
DKIM SIGNED, DKIM VALID, DKIM VALID AU, HTML MESSAGE, SPF PASS, URIBL BLOCKED.
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