Tulljente wrote:

For some reason, while this looks like it SHOULD be possible, the
'text only' option doesn't seem active when I try to send contact
data via e-mail.

What information do you want to include in the text and in what form do you
want the information displayed? You could save the contact as a vCard and
then use notepad to copy the contents of the vCard to the body of a text
message.
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Brian Tillman