C# Send both HTML and Text email - most elegant?

Question

Is is best practice to send both HTML and Text email?

If I only send HTML what are the dangers?

I\'m thinking something like this below from

http://johnn

Answer 1

I think yes, the best practice is to send both. The reason (c&p from wikipedia):

The default e-mail format according to RFC 2822 is plain text. Thus e-mail software isn't required to support HTML formatting. Sending HTML formatted e-mails can therefore lead to problems at the recipient's end if it's one of those clients that don't support it. In the worst case, the recipient will see the HTML code instead of the intended message.