Why isn't multipart/mixed supported in Mail?

If I'm not mistaken multipart/mixed content types aren't supported in Mail.app and I'm told I should be using multipart/alternative despite the difference in the actual content for each part. In my case I have some text content and an rfc822 context so I figure I'm typing the thing correctly since Mail.app under OSX displays the rfc822 inline but the phone's Mail client simply complains.

Just wanted to echo this post. Given that a lot I people keep on sending multipart/mixed messages, I have to say that simply not displaying them is very disappointing.
The problem is that there are no alternatives whatsoever. Ok mail.app does not support it, but at least let the user download the source. I had my electronic tickets sent to me in such a message and had to figure out how the henk and when I can get my fligt having a dumb mail.app telling me that it won't download the rest. Come on!!! That's so frustrating.
In my experience about 10% of mails are multipart mixed. Do you see me telling to my customers to use another mail programme? Please improve this one.

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