Re: What to do about HTML-only email?

[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:25:05 -0500 
Tim Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> They're pure text/html.  No multipart/anything.  That's the chief
> problem.  Multipart/alternative we can handle silently, but
> something that doesn't even have a text/plain part will get
> rejected.

Aieeee!  That is a problem.  Given the privacy model I guarantee my
subscribers there's no way I can ever accept HTML mail (no matter
how good a foreign site stripping model I use I'm confident it can
be broken/worked around).

I note however that 

  http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/#aol6html

Seems to suggest that they use a multipart/alternative.

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