Many people are sending HTML e-mail for no obvious reason or benefit. HTML e-mail can be recognized by colored backgrounds or typefaces. It sometimes has designs or other decorations in the messages.

I’m somewhat “old school” when it comes to my e-mail messages. I like to see them in plain text, without any Web page (HTML) markup, fancy colors, background images, font changes, or other garish ...

If you’ve ever wanted to spice up your iOS device’s e-mail messages with a little styled text, you’ve run up against one of the limitations of Apple’s mobile software. But if you’ve got proficiency ...