W3BNR wrote:
On 3/26/2015 3:15 PM, EE wrote:
W3BNR wrote:
I recently received an e-mail that was in two parts; one 'plain text' and the
other 'HTML'.
When viewing in HTML I saw one part and when viewing in plaint text I saw the
other part.
Message type in header was:
"Content-type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="Boundary_(ID_cKOPk/6CliG/Ro7OFuUArg)"
I would not have known that this was a two part message except that, for one
reason or another, I happened to look at the source. There is no indication of
multipart in the Mail display.
Is there any way of knowing beforehand that e-mail is multipart?
I can usually tell that because I read email as plain text, and there is usually
little or no useful content in the plain text part of multipart mail. Sometimes
there is a link to a web page, which is fine, but often not even that.
True, but I've gotten a couple where there are two completely different texts
about different subject matter. One in plain text and the other in HTML. Not
knowing that the e-mail was Multipart without reading the headers, I lost one or
the other text.
The sender expected me to know it was multipart. I had no inkling until he
asked me why I did not reply to the part I didn't read. I naturally told him
that I didn't get the e-mail. And then he explained.
If this is going to be the 'new' think in e-mail the e-mail programs should
start signifying that a msg is multipart.
Been on the internet forever and never thought to send something like that.
I have been replying to the senders of such mail telling them either to
put something useful like a link in the plain text part, or just send as
HTML, not multipart. Sometimes, they even take notice.
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