Yes, the Drupal mailman plugin will allow for mail to be sent HTML only, and the user can specify this.
There is a great deal that can be done with Drupal/mailman that we are not doing, including automatic schedule announcements and promotions integrated with the user features or just allowed via user event registration.
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> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 13:23:31 -0700
> From: technomage.hawke@gmail.com
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: OT: HTML Emails -- Re: Other than frys where would you get server hardware
>
> There are, in fact, a few of us (like me) who use text only readers for
> various reasons (such as visual impairment) and html formatted messages
> are definitely the bane of out existence.
>
> its been proper etiquette on the internet since its inception that mail
> usually is plain text and if you wish to send media (pictures, etc) that
> its attached (in mime printable form). this may seem archaic, but it
> generally works out well for most of us.
>
> now my client here can read html formatted messages, but the speech
> device will not read me the output, instead it will read the underlying
> source of the text (which gets noisy, frustrating, and tends to have me
> filter such without even reading it)
>
> I, for one, have a problem with such mails and tend to filter them into
> the junk box. if anything important gets in there, its gone (if its
> really important, the sender will have sent as plain text with an html
> attachment <preferred>. this way, I can still read it and those with
> extra features can use the html to their own contentment).
>
> sorry of I may seem a bit terse toward those using html formatted text
> messages, but you folks should be aware there are almost 30 million
> others like me and we would rather not have our lives made any harder
> than it already is.
>
> JD Austin wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Nathan England
> > <nathan@paysonlinux.org <mailto:nathan@paysonlinux.org>> wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 28 January 2009 11:49:48 Patrick Jacques wrote:
> > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> > > <html>
> >
> > Is there a way for mailman or whatever the mail list manager is to
> > wipe out
> > html messages and only send the plain text?
> >
> > Or better yet, is there a way for my procmail to do it?
> >
> > nathan
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> > I never have understood why some people have an issue with html mail;
> > unless you view mail on a teletype machine you can choose how it is
> > displayed. Most modern mail clients have an option to view the text
> > version of the email instead of html. In Thunderbird it is in view
> > -> message body as plain text.
> >
> > --
> > JD Austin
> > Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
> > jd@twingeckos.com <mailto:jd@twingeckos.com>
> > 480.288.8195x201
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> > Bill Cosby - "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid
> > ones that need the advice."
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