Pierre Igot at Betalogue got the Red Hot Chilli Peppers promotional email from the iTunes Music Store today.

It prompts him to provide a good / cranky summary (depending on whether you are a plain text / HTML person) of reasons to dislike HTML emails.

He also wonders whether emails like this are a sign that plain-texters are on the verge of extinction:

…it’s yet another sign that plain-text e-mail is becoming more and more neglected…. Sooner or later, I guess that I too will be forced to switch to HTML e-mail. It really annoys me, because I believe that my reasons for preferring plain-text e-mail are perfectly valid and will remain so for many years to come. But if plain-text e-mail becomes less and less usable, we simply won’t have any other alternative. And Apple will have a certain amount of responsibility in this.

email, plain text, html, RTF, mail.app, apple mail, itunes

Andreas Amann has updated his very useful collection of AppleScripts for Mail.app.

Mail Scripts 2.7.10 features three improvements to the Archive Messages script:

1. It fixes a bug that could result in missing messages if any of the exported messages contained “/”, “{“, or “}”.
2. It fixes another bug that could result in incomplete messages when exporting HTML messages to RTF if the HTML messages contained anchor elements.
3. It tries to be a little more forgiving about malformed HTML messages (e.g., missing closing tags) in order not to produce corrupt RTF files which would refuse to open.

Mail Scripts is freeware (donations not refused). You can get the updated version from Andreas’ web site.