[mew-int 2552] Re: text/html identified as Text/Plain(us-ascii)

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ "Axel G. Rossberg" <Axel at example.com>:

> The messages attached below contains a header line "Content-type:
> text/html" and an html encode body.  Yet, in mew summary, it is
> identified as "Text/Plain(ascii)".

> Not all text/html messages show this behaviour, but I could not
> figure out what the decisive difference is.  Probably there is
> something wrong with the attached message, but, as a matter of fact,
> people are sending such messages around.

The message is missing the header "Mime-Version: 1.0" which is
required in all Mime encoded mail. I suspect that makes the
difference.

- Harald