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Nothing I'm aware of here, no but would be great. In a way, that what we're aiming for with MJML by packing all we know about email HTML tips and hacks in a lightweight syntax.

About plain-text, I don't believe it's the MJML role. Most Email Service Provider provide ways to send HTML and Text part separately so shouldn't be an issue to deal with both.

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> About plain-text, I don't believe it's the MJML role. Most Email Service Provider provide ways to send HTML and Text part separately so shouldn't be an issue to deal with both.

The email provider can certainly send mails containing both HTML and text, but that leaves it to the application to generate a sensible text part. And many applications fail at that.

Rather than leaving it entirely to the application to handle, you might consider incorporating or recommending an appropriate html-to-text rendering mechanism known to work well with MJML templates, to make it easy for people to generate a full multipart/alternative mail containing both text and HTML from the same template.

That's definitely something we can think about, but the first challenge of MJML is definitely to help developers create beautiful layouts easily

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