How To Read Gmail,Outlook,Thunderbird Emails In Plain Text Mode

Many email clients like Gmail,Outlook,Thunderbird are designed for handling emails in HTML format and it will render your inbox emails in HTML mode by default, At some times you want to read the emails in plain text, because you have security measure issues in regards to the HTML formatted emails, or else you would like to have a look at how’s your e-newsletter renders in plain text.By viewing emails in plain text mode as more benifits you can see only the content of that mail no ads,it loads faster,clean and simple. Here we will discuss some of the ways to read Gmail,Outlook,Thunderbird emails in plain text in different email clients.

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How To Read Gmail Emails In Plain Text

In your Gmail emails, at this time currently there is not an specific option for you to view your emails in plain text. But, you can able to see the emails in a plain text by clicking on the down arrow button next to “Reply” and choose “Message text garbled?”. This will open up a new tab and you can view that email in plain text.

How To Read Outlook Emails In Plain Text

Latest new version of Outlook.com email client, there is no option for you to view emails in plain text. There is only one trick to see the plain email text by using the “View Source” option. In your Outlook email, click on the “Actions” link and select “View message source”. Scrolling down the source code you can able to see the email in plain text.

How To Read Thunderbird Emails In Plain Text

Using Thunderbird email client, all you need to do is head to “View -> Message Body As” in the menu bar and choose “Plain text”. Now all your emails will be viewable in plain text mode.

Let us know if you know any other trick to view emails in different email clients in the comments below.

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