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HTML emails already offer both, hidden in the mime message is a plain text version. Clients just usually don't show the plain text one when there is an html version.

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this isn't guaranteed. for example, when i subscribed to groupon (in chile) there was no text alternative.

multipart/alternative isn't automatic. I create one for OurDoings email updates, but almost every mail service mangles it on forwarding.

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