C.It astounds me that so many companies - large, well-funded companies whose businesses utterly depend on email communications with their customers - so frequently send me multipart/alternative email containing a multi-megabyte text/HTML part, and a completely blank text/plain part.
For those of you who aren't email and MIME nerds, the MIME type declaration "multipart/alternative" means "here are message parts containing more than one presentation of the same information, so show the user whichever one is most appropriate for them".
And so users like me, who use a plaintext/console mail reader, or who have a preference for plain text selected in their reader, open a message like this and are greeted by a completely blank message.
Well done, Company! Excellent, no notes.
Maybe you should hire someone who cares about and understands email standards? Hint, hint - I'm available.
#email #MIME #multipart #MultipartAlternative #TextHTML #TextPlain #plaintext #standards #incompetent #incompetence
