Reputation: 31
I was reviewing the source of some emails sent to me and noticed in one that the content type for the text part is different from the HTML part - see below.
--_----------=_MCPart_1153762294
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii";
--_----------=_MCPart_1153762294
Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I was wondering if this is okay to have this? The email was sent from Monkey Wrench via MailChimp server.
Upvotes: 2
Views: 31343
Reputation: 13416
Seeing the complete headers and body would be necessary to fully answer your question, but given what we have: Yes, it's okay to have this. Presumably the message itself is multipart
, and these are snippets from two of the parts in the message body.
Edit: Here's a more complete message that I shamelessly stole (from: Send Html page As Email using "mutt"). It includes all the parts you mention, and it is perfectly legit if somewhat simplistic:
Subject: test html mail
From: sender@example.com
To: recipient@example.com
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec520ea5d6918e204a8cea3b4
--bcaec520ea5d6918e204a8cea3b4
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
*hi!*
--bcaec520ea5d6918e204a8cea3b4
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<p><b>hi!</b></p>
--bcaec520ea5d6918e204a8cea3b4--
Upvotes: 2