Text Only e-Mail Client?

anybody know of one for Windows or Mac?

[lebhead]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but it seemed to be the most appropriate. Feel free to move this thread if necessary.

I am in the middle of building an e-mail newsletter for my clients and am using multi-part alternative MIME formatting to send both an e-mail and plain text versions of the newsletter in the same message, leaving it up to the user's e-mail client to decide which to display. I know that this method is a little controversial, but after a lot of thought I've decided to do it this way.

My question is, do any of you know of a plain text only (non-HTML) e-mail client that is still available for download? The HTML version of my newsletter seems to be fine, but now I need to check the plain text version of the e-mail and don't have a text only client to test it on. I thought Netscape 4.7's e-mail client would do, but it seems to render (somewhat) HTML e-mails.

Any help or links would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[HocusPocus]

Popcorn e-mail client, 180k, free, loadsa features.

[nipear]

Pegasus is what we use to test the text version of our emails. You can get it at download.com

[Mardi_Gras]

If you have Outlook Express just go to Tools>Options>Read>and put a check by "Read all pages in plain text."

That's how I test multi-part mails...You can quickly turn that restriction off, select the e-mail again, and view the HTML version.

[mivox]

Eudora will also allow you to set your preferences to "no images" and "no html" which is pretty much the same as a text client.

[pendanticist]

Eudora Lite 3.0.6 (32) - sends no macros if you inadvertantly open a piece of UCE/SPAM, opens no .exe(s), handles MIME stuff and never, ever, ever needs updates or patches.

Pendanticist.