On 23/08/2017 09:03, Thomas Mueller wrote: > You (Dale) seem to have corrected the multipart/alternative problem, except > one message (Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: downgrading glibc) where > multipart/alternative went through. > > I would never design an email client to send multipart/alternative by > default, and might design an email client to not support > multipart/alternative at all in composed messages.
And that's why your mail client will never rule the world, but Outlook and GMail's web interface does. I think it's high time we techies all got over the HTML thing now. We all have high speed internet these days, you can't buy a spinning drive smaller than 1TB anymore and apart from a few holdfasts like decent Mailman lists (eg this one and kernel.org), email is a thing that idiots at work use like it was IM. Most other folks moved on... -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]

