Re: FN-FORUM: RE: MIME email type

date posted 13th March 2006 14:35

> The choice on whether to display the HTML or text version needs to be
> made depending on the capabilities of the current email program.

I agree. That's exactly what "multipart: alternative" is for. All HTML
e-mails should contain a plaintext alternative part as best practice. It's
not difficult, but is often overlooked.

HTML-only e-mails are often looked at with suspicion by spam filters too,
because of the ease with which spam can be disguised in HTML messages
(white text on white background, tiny fonts, text with charaters in table
cells, etc.).

If all e-mail was plain text, spam would be very easy to filter out.

Anthony
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