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plain text only policy prohibits the use of android based mobile devices

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ESEugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date
May 18, 2011, 22:03 UTC
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hi,

Due to the existing policy about plain text only messages accepted by the list it is impossible to send an email from any mobile device using gmail native app. The problem is that Google for some reason doesn't include plain text email sending as a configurable feature in Android v2+ and only sends multipart HTML and plain text messages from Android 3.1+ devices (AKA Honeycomb tablets)

The necessity to use the desktop in order to send a message to the list is annoying and not quite contemporary.

In the same time this policy doesn't seem to cut off SPAM effectively as I'm getting plenty of different emails of stupid nature with git majordomo or whatever it is signature inside.

Can the filter be made smarter to accept at least the messages from Honeycomb devices 3.1+? Is there any other steps that can be made to make the list more mobile-friendly?

Thanks, Eugene

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