On 2008-07-03 at 16:52 -0700, Timothy Knox wrote: > which is followed by an HTML version of of the actual mail, THAT is NOT > ACTUALLY > multipart/alternative. multipart/alternative is only for messages where each > part is simply an alternative format for the same basic content! The type you > want is multipart/mixed. If you could get this right, my mail client, which > has > been told to ignore HTML mail in multipart/alternative messages (since HTML > mail > is a whole 'nother hate), would correctly use lynx to display your HTML > message > correctly to me.
It's not what they want, because the people using HTML-capable mail-clients would also see the text. So you're just as guilty of not thinking of people with different mail-clients as is the author of the software which you're complaining about. -Phil
