Details
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Bug
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Status: Resolved
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Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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Commons Messaging Mail 2.0.0
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Description
When displaying a list of alternatives, rfc1341 considers that the preferred order is from the last to the first, so the richest alternative (HTML) should be placed after the basic text.
In general, user agents that compose multipart/alternative
entities should place the body parts in increasing order of
preference, that is, with the preferred format last. For
fancy text, the sending user agent should put the plainest
format first and the richest format last. Receiving user
agents should pick and display the last format they are
capable of displaying. In the case where one of the
alternatives is itself of type "multipart" and contains
unrecognized sub-parts, the user agent may choose either to
show that alternative, an earlier alternative, or both.NOTE: From an implementor's perspective, it might seem more
sensible to reverse this ordering, and have the plainest
alternative last. However, placing the plainest alternative
first is the friendliest possible option when
mutlipart/alternative entities are viewed using a non-MIME-
compliant mail reader. While this approach does impose some
burden on compliant mail readers, interoperability with
older mail readers was deemed to be more important in this
case.
