Plain text emails needed

[+Team Monkeyboy]

I can't possibly be the first to have this issue, but I can't find a related topic when I search the forums:

I have notification alerts set up to email my gmail account, which in turn uses filters to forward the emails to my smartphone as SMS texts (using my phone number along with the "@phonecompany.com" extension provided by my carrier). However, they are so polluted with HTML code that they are absolutely impossible to read. Here's an example:

 

* { -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; } body { Margin: 0; padding: 0; min-width: 100%; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; } table { border-spacing: 0; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; } img { border: 0; } a { color: #2B7277; } li { padding-bottom: .75em; } hr { background-color: #9B9B9B; border: none; height: 2px; margin: 40px 0; } .wrapper { width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; } .webkit { max-width: 600px; } .outer { Margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; max-width: 600px; } .full-width-image img { width: 100%; max-width: 600px; height: auto; } .inner { padding: 10px; } p { Margin: 0; padding-bottom: 10px; } .one-column p { color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; } .contents { width: 100%; } .three-column { text-align: center; font-size: 0; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; } .three-column .column { width: 100%; max-width: 140px; display: inline-block; } .three-column .column td { width: 200px; max-width: 100%; } /* For iOS and other clients' auto-generated links */ .override a { color: #ffffff !important; } .override span { color: #ffffff; border-color: #ffffff; } a[x-apple-data-detectors] { color: inherit !important; text-decoration: underline !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: inherit !important; } 

 

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Tinnyyy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Once upon a time, YEARS ago, there were options for some emails to be delivered text only. I realize that sending emails in plain text prevents any behind-the-scenes tracking and data manipulation to take place on the emails that are sent out, so the chances of getting an option to send plain text emails are slim to none, but has anyone figured out a way of getting the notification emails to be readable in a text app? Or maybe a relay service that will strip HTML out of an email and forward it to another address?

[+ChileHead]

I wrote something a couple years ago to do something similar. Read about it here:

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=336887&st=0&p=5561300&fromsearch=1entry5561300

 

I wasn't trying to strip out all the HTML for the same reason you want, but I wanted a more mobile friendly version, so the task is similar. I don't currently use it at this time, so it might need tweaking a bit.

[+Team Monkeyboy]

I wrote something a couple years ago to do something similar. Read about it here:

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=336887&st=0&p=5561300&fromsearch=1entry5561300

 

I wasn't trying to strip out all the HTML for the same reason you want, but I wanted a more mobile friendly version, so the task is similar. I don't currently use it at this time, so it might need tweaking a bit.

 

Dude... that's AWESOME! Exactly what I needed. Thanks!!

[+hzoi]

Honestly not trying to be a smart aleck, but why don't you just use the Gmail phone app? My gmail isn't my primary email account, but when I need to have email on the go (say, for flight or hotel reservations), I forward it to my gmail account, and it is instantly pushed to my phone, HTML or no.

[+ChileHead]

Honestly not trying to be a smart aleck, but why don't you just use the Gmail phone app? My gmail isn't my primary email account, but when I need to have email on the go (say, for flight or hotel reservations), I forward it to my gmail account, and it is instantly pushed to my phone, HTML or no.

 

I was assuming the original poster possibly didn't have a smartphone and wanted to use SMS, but I didn't ask. When I wrote the HTML stripper, I was using the gmail app but wanted to strip out formatting so I could see more on a screen at once.

[+niraD]

When I wrote the HTML stripper, I was using the gmail app but wanted to strip out formatting so I could see more on a screen at once.

That's been my experience with a lot of HTML-formatted email. While I can read it using the Gmail phone app, I usually don't bother because the signal-to-noise ratio is too low.

[+hzoi]

Honestly not trying to be a smart aleck, but why don't you just use the Gmail phone app? My gmail isn't my primary email account, but when I need to have email on the go (say, for flight or hotel reservations), I forward it to my gmail account, and it is instantly pushed to my phone, HTML or no.

 

I was assuming the original poster possibly didn't have a smartphone and wanted to use SMS, but I didn't ask. When I wrote the HTML stripper, I was using the gmail app but wanted to strip out formatting so I could see more on a screen at once.

The first post mentions a smartphone, so I'm guessing not. But I can certainly understand wanting less clutter and more visibility.