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Email Received on Yahoo shows HTML code, not a proper message

Email sent to a Yahoo user are received showing HTML formatting.
Is there a way to determine the cause?

Possible clues:
a CC: to an AOL user
An attachment

Here is a sample of what the message looks like, followed by the raw message:  
(Thanks)


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On October 19, 2018 at 12:13 PM Office Person <mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com mailto:mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com > wrote:
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Dear Debbie,
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Please find attached the initial Listing of Subject Matters, signed by Mxxxxx.
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X-Apparently-To: mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:17:12 +0000
Return-Path: <info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com>
Received-SPF: none (domain of dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com does not designate permitted sender hosts)
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X-Originating-IP: [209.17.115.44]
Authentication-Results: mta4077.mail.gq1.yahoo.com  from=dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig);  from=dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com; dkim=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 127.0.0.1  (EHLO atl4mhob06.registeredsite.com) (209.17.115.44)
  by mta4077.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:17:11 +0000
Received: from null ([10.30.71.93])
      by atl4mhob06.registeredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w9JGH8QC020045
      (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA256 bits=256 verify=NO);
      Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:17:08 -0400
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:17:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: "info dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com" <info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com>
Reply-To: "info dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com" <info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com>
To: Office Person <mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Mr. & Mrs. Person Sending" <pxxxxxxxxxt@aol.com>
Message-ID: <421942086.137463.1539965828334@webmail6.networksolutionsemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B0893C1-66D3-47DB-B81B-9FB53D28ED2D@yahoo.com>
References: <D5AFD246-C829-4676-8681-EBCD58A6D960@aol.com>
 <434772167.41131.1539276371402@webmail6.networksolutionsemail.com>
 <3B0893C1-66D3-47DB-B81B-9FB53D28ED2D@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Subject Matter
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X-Priority: 3
Importance: Medium
X-Mailer: Open-Xchange Mailer v7.8.4-Rev41
X-Originating-Client: open-xchange-appsuite
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On October 19, 2018 at 12:13 PM Office Person <mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com mailto:mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com > wrote:
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Dear Debbie,
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Please find attached the initial Listing of Subject Matters, signed by Mxxxxx.
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I will be in touch soon about additional Listings as the project develops.
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Best and kind regards,
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Amy Saxxxxy
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On Oct 11, 2018, at 12:46 PM, info
<a href="http://dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com" http://dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com class="">dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com</a> <
<a href="mailto:info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com mailto:info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com " class=""info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com">>info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com</a>> wrote:
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<p class="">Good Afternoon,</p>
<p class="">Please complete the attached Listing of Subject Matter form and return it to our office. </p>
<p class="">This form enables us to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Subject Matter work completed xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.</p>
<p class="">Thank you!</p>
<p class="">Debbie</p>
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<span id="cid:AF7F2882-6F13-4B0D-ADDC-2710991AE68E@nyc.rr.com mailto:AF7F2882-6F13-4B0D-ADDC-2710991AE68E@nyc.rr.com "><Wxxxxxx Subject Mattermenet.pdf></span>
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illoconstruction.com&#34;</a> class=3D&#34;&#34;&#62;dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.co=
m&#60;/a&#62; &#60;<br>      &#60;a href=3D&#34;mailto:<a href=3D"mailto:in=
fo@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com">info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com</a>&#34; class=3D&=
#34;&#34;<a href=3D"mailto:">info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com&#34;&#62;&#62;inf=
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ertificate of Subject Matter form and return it to our office.&#160;&#=
60;/p&#62;<br>       &#60;p class=3D&#34;&#34;&#62;This form enables us to =
reduce your costs by not charging sales tax on Subject Matter work com=
pleted on your property.&#60;/p&#62;<br>       &#60;p class=3D&#34;&#34;&#6=
2;Thank you!&#60;/p&#62;<br>       &#60;p class=3D&#34;&#34;&#62;Debbie&#60=
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enet.pdf&#62;&#60;/span&#62;<br>     &#60;/div&#62;<br>    &#60;/blockquote=
&#62;<br>   &#60;/div&#62;<br>   &#60;br class=3D&#34;&#34;&#62;<br>  &#60;=
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Marcus Bointon
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Two wrong things in there.

Your multipart sub-elements should not have the `MIME-Version: 1.0` headers; only the root element needs that.

Your HTML body has a random mix of entity escaping and raw HTML. Nearly all of those entities should not be entities. For example where you have `&#60;br&#62;<br>` it should just be `<br><br>`. In short, you need to look at how you are constructing your message body.

I'd recommend using a library such as PHPMailer that can do all this encoding correctly for you; you shouldn't be doing it yourself.
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Marcus - do you have an idea if the sender's email is creating a message with incorrect HTML or if Yahoo is mis-reading the message?  Could this just have been caused by some odd error on the sender?
This can only be down to the sender using confused (to use a generous term!) HTML.
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David Favor
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