1.Things 'went wrong' at the beginning. You can't use italics in a plain text document. Asterisks are often used to show emphasis, which is what italics should be doing.

2.No, there is no way for you to assert your email preferences on someone else's email client.

It's possible they are receiving your emails fine, but may just be sending plain text. There is nothing you can do about that either.

If it's important that you have specific 'fields' that need to be displayed differently in plain text, and asterisks are too ugly, you could consider something like [brackets], (parentheses) or |pipes| to delineate those values.

1. Things 'went wrong' at the beginning. You can't use italics in a plain text document. Asterisks are often used to show emphasis, which is what italics should be doing.

2. No, there is no way for you to assert your email preferences on someone else's email client.

It's possible they are receiving your emails fine, but may just be sending plain text. There is nothing you can do about that either.

If it's important that you have specific 'fields' that need to be displayed differently in plain text, and asterisks are too ugly, you could consider something like [brackets], (parentheses) or |pipes| to delineate those values.

1.Things 'went wrong' at the beginning. You can't use italics in a plain text document. Asterisks are often used to show emphasis, which is what italics should be doing.

2.No, there is no way for you to assert your email preferences on someone else's email client.

If it's important that you have specific 'fields' that need to be displayed differently in plain text, you could consider something like [brackets], (parentheses) or |pipes| to delineate those values.

1.Things 'went wrong' at the beginning. You can't use italics in a plain text document. Asterisks are often used to show emphasis, which is what italics should be doing.

2.No, there is no way for you to assert your email preferences on someone else's email client.

It's possible they are receiving your emails fine, but may just be sending plain text. There is nothing you can do about that either.

If it's important that you have specific 'fields' that need to be displayed differently in plain text, and asterisks are too ugly, you could consider something like [brackets], (parentheses) or |pipes| to delineate those values.