[MM3-users] Re: Mailman shutting down Hyperkitty: Request too large

Mark Sapiro writes:

Not if we're collapsing alternatives. If we're collapsing a multipart/alternative part with text/plain and text/html alternatives to just the first alternative we don't keep the text/html part.

I understand that's what we currently do. But I think that when the MUA provides an empty plain text part and a non-null HTML part, that's a mark of lazy MUA developers, not author intent. I think that it's very likely that the author would prefer the reader get converted HTML rather than a blank.

Of course if the list owner wants to inhibit conversion, that's fine. But I would expect that list owners who enable conversion would also want to present a converted alternate rather than the blank plain text.

Steve