Send mail with plaintext alternative using phpmailer

Question

I have the following php code for sending email with phpmailer

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->SetFrom($from, $sender_name);
$mail->Subject      = $subject;
$mail->AddAddress($to, "test");
$mail->Body = $body; //$body is an html content
$mail->Send();

This will send an email.I need to send plain text alternative with this,for an email client does not have HTML support.

Is possible? Is possible to do with php mail() function?

Answer 1

PHPMailer has a property AltBody, so you could add some plain text like this:

$mail->AltBody = strip_tags($body);

See the documentation.