Multipart/alternative subtype, when client use it?
Why webmails (like Gmail) sends MIME messages using multipart/alternative subtype (when composing in HTML) while others send HTML as MIME with text/html parts inside (without using alternative subtype)? multipart/alternative indicates that each part is an "alternative" version of the same (or similar) content, each in a different format denoted by its "Content-Type" header. The formats are ordered by how faithful they are to the original, with the least faithful first and the most faithful last. Mail-agents like Gmail know what they are doing, and convert the text/html to text/plain and put