Re: Incoming HTML mail strangeness

Mandag den 25. marts 2013 12:31:44 skrev ianseeks:
> On Monday 25 Mar 2013 13:19:15 Atanas Zhelev wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013, at 01:14 PM, ianseeks wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I got an email this morning that displayed only 1 line of text i.e.
> > > "There is
> > > no text version for this email" so it looked like the body was lost.  If
> > > i
> > > select reply, it displays the missing email text which was in html.
> > > If I check "Folder/Prefer HTML to Text" , then it displays properly
> > > 
> > > Normally i do not have the "Folder/Prefer HTML to Text" checked and all
> > > html
> > > emails display in a text format with the option in the email text to
> > > click to
> > > display the email in html format.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas what is weird about this email?
> > > 
> > > regards
> > > 
> > > Ian
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > check the source of the email. I bet the plaintext part has one line
> > only that says
> > 
> >  "There is no text version for this email"
> > 
> > so kmail is displaying only that.
> 
> So with a HTML email, there are 2 copies of the text in the mail?  One plain
> and one formatted with HTML?

Yes, normally. You will see a header like this one:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="089e013d1da8ef5a7004d8add151"

followed  by sections with plaintext and html versions of the message.

-- 
Anders

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