 tim peters wrote i ve actually got a bunch of spam like that the text plain is something like this is a html message and nothing else are you sure that s in a text plain mime section i ve seen that many times myself but it s always been in the prologue between mime sections so it s something a non mime aware reader will show you nod i know on my todo is to feed the prologue into the system as well a snippet hopefully not enough to trigger the spam filters to intoNUMBERj URL x mailer microsoft outlook express NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER x mimeole produced by microsoft mimeole v d NUMBER NUMBER mime version NUMBER NUMBER date sun NUMBER jan NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER content type multipart mixed boundary _nextpart_NUMBER_NUMBERf_NUMBERbdfNUMBERcNUMBER fabacNUMBER bNUMBER content transfer encoding NUMBERbit this is a mime message _nextpart_NUMBER_NUMBERf_NUMBERbdfNUMBERcNUMBER fabacNUMBERbNUMBER content type multipart alternative boundary _nextpart_NUMBER_NUMBER_NUMBERbdfNUMBERcNUMBER fabacNUMBERbNUMBER _nextpart_NUMBER_NUMBER_NUMBERbdfNUMBERcNUMBER fabacNUMBERbNUMBER content type text plain charset iso NUMBER NUMBER content transfer encoding quoted printable this is an html message _nextpart_NUMBER_NUMBER_NUMBERbdfNUMBERcNUMBER fabacNUMBERbNUMBER content type text html charset iso NUMBER NUMBER content transfer encoding quoted printable doctype html public wNUMBERc dtd html NUMBER NUMBEReNUMBER transitional en html head 