Why can't I read a lot of my mail?

does anyone else have this problem: at least a third to a half of all the eMails I receive on the iPhone come in a completely unreadable form - a lot of code, or a message that I can't decipher. Not just one or two, but a good portion of everything.
I hated my old treo in every other respect - it couldn't do anything that the iP can - but I have to admit, the old 3-o seems to have done a simpler & better job of reading eMail.
is there any way I can set the iPhone to let me read eMail in a text-only mode? Some kind of non-HTML mode? I don't need fancy formatting & pictures, just raw text will do it!
w

I have not experienced the same and I recieve messages that were composed with HTML or a message forwarded that was composed with HTML with no problems.
The iPhone's email client does not include a setting to covert all message formatting to Plain Text.
Does this occur primarily with one sender or any/all?
If one or two, you can ask these senders to configure their email client settings to always send you messages in Plain Text - Outlook includes this option by individual contacts in the address book. HTML composition for email is something Microsoft wrought upon the internet which is fraught with potential problems and security issues for Windows users and for Mac users but to a much lessor degree. If only Plain Text was supported for email exchange, it would be boring for some but most if not all problems associated with the exchange of email and email attachments would be eliminated.
I also suggest deleting and manually recreating this account on your iPhone.

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