On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 11:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > This is far away from reality. What makes you think that XHTML mail would be > any better formed than HTML? I bet some makers of those many crap HTML web > mailers will just rename the Doctype if a client asks them about XHTML > compatibility. Or add that Doctype and DTD finally. > Just to add to that: most of the HTML mail I've seen lacks a Doctype line, so using that to control a validator is probably a nonstarter.
For that matter, a remarkable amount also omit the <html>, <head> and even <body> tags. AOL's mailer is one of these. MS MTAs all seem to use <html>..</html>, <head>..<\head> and <body>..</body> tags but some add a Doctype and some don't. Martin
