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Re:Caniemail.com (like caniuse but for email content) by anamexis on Monday May 06, 2024 @09:36PM (#40281359)
The point is that attachments are needed to make HTML work. If you have attachments, you have HTML emails.
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Re:Caniemail.com (like caniuse but for email content) by throw0101c on Monday May 06, 2024 @09:43PM (#40281393)
> The point is that attachments are needed to make HTML work.

They are not.

MIME headers are helpful for telling MUAs what the content (type and/or disposition) of a message is, but there's nothing from stoping mail clients from just putting "raw" HTML in the body of an e-mail message without MIME.

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Re:Caniemail.com (like caniuse but for email content) by anamexis on Monday May 06, 2024 @09:47PM (#40281418)
Yes, obviously you could just email HTML before MIME existed. That's not the point of the discussion at hand.
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Re:Caniemail.com (like caniuse but for email content) by hollerith on Monday May 06, 2024 @10:16PM (#40281617)
This is bad logic, and so is your comment upthread, IMHO.
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