Plain Text Messages

There are a number of (security) reasons why plain text messages should be preferred to HTML messages.

Monospaced Font

If you read emails as plain text (good HTML emails always offer a plain text variant and do not only link to a web page as alternative to the HTML version), you should set a font with fixed width (e. g. Courier), so that tables are displayed better readable:

  January:  134,50 EUR
+ February:   3,00 EUR
+ March:     12,10 EUR
----------------------
= Total:    149,60 EUR

Kind regards
given name family name
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O.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. DDr. given name family name, MBA  __  _|  |_
Institut / Graz University of Technology                  |  ||      |
Phone: +43 (0) 316 873 / 1234   Fax: 5678                 |_    _||__|
http://www.inst.TUGraz.at/                                  |__|

Without monospaced fonts (= fonts with fixed width) this would look like

January: 134,50 EUR
+ February: 3,00 EUR
+ March: 12,10 EUR
----------------------
= Total: 149,60 EUR
Kind regards
Vorname Nachname
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__
O.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. DDr. given name family name, MBA __ _| |_
Institut / Graz University of Technology | || |
Phone: +43 (0) 316 873 / 1234 Fax: 5678 |_ _||__|
http://www.inst.TUGraz.at/ |__|

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