When I send email as HTML, why do erroneous whitespaces get introduced to the HTML source and a few < > chars get converted to &lt; and &gt; ???

[Walter Hurry]

On Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:06:38 -0800, richard.balbat wrote:

> I have the following script that reads in an HTML file containing a
> table then sends it out via email with a content type of text/html.
> 
> For some reason a few erroneous whitespaces get introduced to the HTML
> source and a few < > chars get converted to < and > ???
> 
Perhaps it might ne a better idea not to send HTML emails at all. Or if 
you must, please don't send them to this list.