How do I see the text/html version of an email?

[Ofer Inbar]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 12:50:18PM -0400,
Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> José María Mateos wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 02:56:35PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> >> Some considerate organisation has been sending me MIME mails with
> >> content in a text/html section and a wholly blank text/plain version.
> >> What I see in mutt is the blank text/plain.  Who on Earth thought a
> >> blank text/plain section was somehow a good idea?
> 
> [I know, I know, I'm answering a rhetorical question.]
> 
> I suspect one likely group would be the companies who depend
> on advertising revenue.  With HTML, they can stuff tracking

I very very highly doubt that is a reason.

Use of text/plain is too insignificant for anyone to care enough to
come up with weird tricks like this.  Plenty of marketers send html
only email, as do pleny of others who just don't even think of the
possibility that anyone reads their mail in anything other than a
web browser.

Blank text/plain is almost certainly from buggy or misconfigured
software that is supposed to produce proper multipart/alternative,
but whose users don't know enough to ever check whether they messed
it up, and who never see the results because they and everyone they
know reads email in html.
  -- Cos