[rt-users] REG: HTML mails

[Eric Goodman]

>  > A plaintext message body (named
>>  "message") comes with a type/subtype of "text/text" (I think).
>
>text/plain

That's what happens when I get lazy and try to respond from memory!

>  > The case you describe is HTML only. For this I think you typically
>>  see a message body with name "message, part 1" (though I would expect
>>  you might see just "message") and type/subtype "text/html".
>
>The body's name is MTA-dependent.  A safer way to check for this would be
>to look for messages which have a text/html part, but no text/plain part.
>(You wouldn't want to look for text/html as the only part because it
>could have attachments, but still lack a plaintext version of the body.)

Good to know! Still, it works for most of the mailers we're using, 
and stripmime itself looks for a part named "message" in determining 
what to use as the message body, so I think my additions will work in 
most cases where stripmime would have worked for a corresponding 
plain-text or mixed-type messages.

That's not a great excuse for not implementing a better search, but 
then again, that's why I hadn't sent my code to the list earlier. :)

--- Eric