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All common graphical email clients that I know of send a HTML message as a "multipart/alternative", with both a plain text and a HTML version. In fact, AFAIK an
by cesarb 9y ago
All common graphical email clients that I know of send a HTML message as a "multipart/alternative", with both a plain text and a HTML version. In fact, AFAIK an email having only a HTML version (or the plain text version being too different from the HTML version) is an indication that the email is probably spam.
The text-only email clients just ignore the HTML version and show the plain text version of the email.
- skrebbel 9y agoAhh right, that makes more sense. So all the people who proudly boast that they send HTML emails straight to /dev/null actually mean "emails that don't come with a text version". Sounds less hardball when you put it put that :-)