[pmmail-list] text/plain email

[Richard Grevers]

On Thu, 08 Aug 2002 15:00:07 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:

>On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 09:19:11 +1200, Richard Grevers wrote:
>>On Thu, 08 Aug 2002 17:00:29 -0400, PMMail 2000 Support wrote:
>>>On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 08:41:37 +1200, Richard Grevers wrote:
>>>
>>>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii as HTML
>>>>if they contain a code snippet containing the <H T M L> tag.
>>>
>>>The new option does NOT turn off HTML rendering. It only forces PMMail
>>>to display the text/plain portion of a message that contains multi-part
>>>content.
>>>
>>I was aware of that. So will there be any attempt to correct this glaring
>>violation of the relevant RFC's?  A declaration of text/plain should
>>absolutely rule.
>
>Although I agree wholeheartedly that this behavior is misguided and annoying, 
>and violates the "principle of least astonishment", there are in fact no RFCs 
>that mandate the physical rendering of a piece of e-mail.  An MUA is 
>essentially free (from an RFC standpoint) to interpret the contents as it sees 
>fit.
text/plain is pretty clearly defined as "unformatted" in RFC 1521
http://www.nacs.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/1521/07_Predefined_Content-Type.html#7.1

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