Re: Posting netiquette: HTML: e-mail clients
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 01:54:38 UTC
On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 02:18:44 +0100, Graham Perrin wrote: >On 27/06/2022 00:07, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions/2022-June/001448.html >> >> It does exactly look this way, when displayed by Claws on my my >> machine [snip] > >[snip] >Free from breakage, viewed with Thunderbird 91.10.0_1 on FreeBSD >14.0-CURRENT: Hi, this screenshot doesn't show Thunderbird displaying text/plain of the multipart/alternative message. The screenshot shows Thunderbird displaying text/html of the multipart/alternative message. The context is that Baptiste Daroussin asserted: "Note that the mailing list engine will reject html only email, html is fine as long at it is created with text/plain alternative. Note that only the text/plain alternative will be used to construct the archive [snip]" That multipart/alternative message containing text/plain are "fine" is a plain misconception. These days almost all multipart/alternative messages contain unreadable formatted plain text, let alone that I several times received multipart/alternative messages with a text/plain saying "yes" and a text/html saying "no". IOW text/plain and text/html of a multipart/alternative message could be two completely different texts. The archive of this mailing list does not show what Thunderbird displays by your screenshot, since it shows another part of the the multipart/alternative message than the part the archive does show. Regards, Ralf