How can I test a plain text email that has an HTML body?

Question

If an email contains HTML, Gmail, for example, renders the body as HTML. How can I check that the plain text version also works?

Answer 1

When you get an email on Gmail click on the small button on the right of reply and choose 'show original'.

If it is a multi-part message it will show you what was sent to the Gmail server. Do a quick search for:

----=_---NextPart--=_

You should be able to find the multi part messages which consists of text/plain or text/html, similar to below:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable


Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable

If your platform allows to send the multi-part individually then you can send them separate and you will get both the emails separate in your inbox.

Hope that helps.