TL;DR
This post is about how to open email in plain text mode in Gmail.
When I test emails, my client uses two templates, html and txt one. Txt template is for email clients that can not show email in html mode. So I need to check email txt template, which is usually forgotten to check.
My simple strategy was to open received email in Gmail in plain txt mode. Gmail has a lot of features, including Lab (experimental one) tab, and I was surprised that Gmail removed feature
Message text garbled?
Google search landed me to Google product forum with answer:
- From email More menu, select show original
- Email will be opened in new tab
- In email url, replace
view=om with view=dom
Now you will see plain txt version of your email.
This workaround no longer seems to work. 🙁 Any other suggestions?
Hi!
In “new” gmail, this hack does not work.
So you need to roll back to previous version of gmail:
1. Click on settings icon (right from keyboard icon)
2. Select first option from top: go back to classic gmail gmail
this does not work in old version of gmail as well.
Hi Amit, I just tried with email received from slack, and it works in old gmail version.
Are you sure that your email has txt version?
What error do you get?