After updating Thymeleaf to v3 (#406) we can use new textual template mode for e-mails. See: - http://www.thymeleaf.org/doc/articles/springmail.html - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25610281/spring-boot-sending-emails-using-thymeleaf-as-template-configuration-does-not - http://www.baeldung.com/spring-thymeleaf-3 - http://www.thymeleaf.org/doc/articles/thymeleaf3migration.html ("Textual template modes" chapter) - https://github.com/thymeleaf/thymeleaf/issues/395 - http://blog.codeleak.pl/2017/03/getting-started-with-thymeleaf-3-text.html - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41599954/how-to-process-txt-e-mail-template-with-thymeleaf - https://springhow.com/spring-boot-email-thymeleaf/ We should use unescaped (`[(...)]`) form in the templates.