>> The first one is a text representation of your message that email
>> clients that can't or won't handle HTML format display. Then
>> there is the HTML message for clients that can display it.
>
> Is that really true? I always assumed that the client e-mail
> program (Outlook, Outlook Express, AOL, etc.) had to either
> strip out the HTML tags and present the user with a text-only
> version, or put the unrecognized text into an attachment (such
> as the winmail.dat files people often get but can't read).
Nope. The problem is that when HTML mail was introduced, there weren't any HTML mail
readers. If people sent out HTML without plain text, nobody would have been able to
read it. Using MIME, it's easy to send out 2 different versions of the same E-mail:
a text version, and an HTML version. Unfortunately, Microsoft pushes people to use
HTML even if they are sending plain text.
>Does the mail server really create two messages?
The mail client does create two copies of the same message.
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