When creating HTML emails, should we use html, head, body tags?

Question

In my email views, I usually just do something like...

   
Name
   
Value

Should

Answer 1

I don't think there is a right way but trying to make the email viewable in as many email readers as posible.

I usually check the emails in Thunderbird, because Outlook forgives more.

In Thunderbird this is the HTML code for an email (i have an extension that shows the html)

        This is the body text





Regards

Alex

BTW, i use plain text email for all my web forms every time I can. I had many issues with blackberry email using html+plain text emails.