Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Dual text/plain multipart/alternative content

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 01:05:21PM -0400, Ian Kelling wrote:
> Yes, its being converted. We upgraded the mailing list server a few 
> months ago and accidentally disabled the conversion and re-enabled it 
> recently about a month ago.

Thank you for confirming the change.

> I just sent another message to the list discussing this, where I 
> explained why my feeling is that we should continue converting html for 
> this list.

I agree with the sentiment towards html email expressed in that message, 
and don't wish to argue *for* html email on this list.  My only regret 
is that the conversion is being done when there is already a text/plain 
part, resulting in an ambiguous choice for the mail client.

It might be preferable if the text/html part could simply be dropped 
when there is a text/plain alternative.

However, I understand there are trade-offs in all directions, and your 
decisions affect hundreds of mailing lists, where everyone has a 
different opinion.  :-)

By the way, the mailing list footer is being properly appended outside 
the multipart/signed.  So for text-only emails, a signature is not 
broken.

-Kevin

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