Subject: support for "broken" text/html

From: Andrew Daviel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:07:03 -0800 (PST)

I'd like to see support for non-MIME HTML mail. As in an HTTP-like

Subject: whatever
Content-Type: text/html

<doctype .....
etc.

Admittedly, most mail I get like this is spam, but there is one
newsletter I'm subscribed to comes like this. Ideally I could get them to 
mend their ways, but in practice it's difficult.

I'm not even sure whether this is officially allowed or forbidden.
I know that MIME-Version is required for MIME, which I normally associate
with multipart/alternative etc., but I'm not sure whether HTML sent
as the message body with no encoding should require it.

-- 
Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376
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From: Mats Dufberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:21:39 +0100 (CET)

> as the message body with no encoding should require it.

MIME covers many things, among them to be able to define that the mailbody
is not plain text, but HTML. Without proper headers it is not a proper
MIME mail.

Ask the sender to update its system to support MIME properly.

Mats

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