This is a MIME message

[Carlos]

In some mails I'm receiving the following message and I can not read it.

"This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to
consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to
properly handle MIME multipart messages."

Thanks

 

[DAVE]

Hi Carlos,
See attached article,
http://www.enewsletterpro.com/articles/multi_part_mime_messages.asp
Rgrds,

 

[Vanguard]

In some mails I'm receiving the following message and I can not read it.

"This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to
consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to
properly handle MIME multipart messages."

The spammer wants you to change from reading in plain-text mode to HTML mode
(so they can try using HTML nasties, use misleading URLs, show their image
containing their spam content inside a .gif file to avoid spam filters,
etc.) .

All HTML e-mails *should* contain an HTML section and also a plain-text
section. That is so anyone that doesn't have an HTML-capable e-mail client
or is reading in plain-text mode can read the text of the message. Hotmail
is one of those that violates this netiquette and only includes an HTML MIME
part. This is considered rude. So the sender of the HTML-formatted e-mail
is also being rude by hiding their content within only the HTML part and not
providing a text part.