# Brevo transactional emails (simple smtp relay) forces content type of text/html

**URL:** <https://community.brevo.com/t/brevo-transactional-emails-simple-smtp-relay-forces-content-type-of-text-html/672>\
**Category:** Transactional\
**Created:** [Février 6, 2024, 9:30 UTC](https://community.brevo.com/t/brevo-transactional-emails-simple-smtp-relay-forces-content-type-of-text-html/672 "2024-02-06T21:30:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![poningru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@poningru](https://community.brevo.com/u/poningru)\
**Post date:** [Février 6, 2024, 9:30 UTC](https://community.brevo.com/t/brevo-transactional-emails-simple-smtp-relay-forces-content-type-of-text-html/672/1 "2024-02-06T21:30:51Z")

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Hello  
I’m testing brevo transactional emails to send emails through my apps and treating it as an smtp relay. One of the issues I’m seeing is that the brevo smtp relay will convert my email from text/plain to html.  
Is this configurable? Can I have brevo not make edits to the emails?  
Thanks  
-Eldo

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**Author:** ![ahudavert](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.brevo.com/ahudavert/32/14_2.png) [@ahudavert](https://community.brevo.com/u/ahudavert)\
**Post date:** [Février 7, 2024, 2:51 UTC](https://community.brevo.com/t/brevo-transactional-emails-simple-smtp-relay-forces-content-type-of-text-html/672/2 "2024-02-07T14:51:19Z")

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Hello @poningru , thanks for posting on this community!

We have just tested the [smtp api v3](https://developers.brevo.com/docs/send-a-transactional-email) endpoint and this is the behavior:

- when we send only `htmlContent` field, the content type is `text/html` with tracking pixel
- when we send only `textContent` field, the content is `text/html` as well, the content is converted to HTML and it includes also the tracking pixel there
- when we send both `htmlContent` and `textContent` , I see both `text/html` and `text/plain` content and the tracking pixel is correctly attached to the html part

So I don’t think there is a possibility to have `text/plain` only.

So that we understand it better: what is your exact use case here?

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**Author:** ![poningru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@poningru](https://community.brevo.com/u/poningru)\
**Post date:** [Février 7, 2024, 5:39 UTC](https://community.brevo.com/t/brevo-transactional-emails-simple-smtp-relay-forces-content-type-of-text-html/672/3 "2024-02-07T17:39:03Z")

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hi @ahudavert  
thanks for the quick reply on this! We basically have some email clients that cant handle text/html. I can test both text/html and text/plain. How do I pick the third option there? I’m currently sending just text/plain.  
-Eldo

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**Author:** ![ahudavert](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.brevo.com/ahudavert/32/14_2.png) [@ahudavert](https://community.brevo.com/u/ahudavert)\
**Post date:** [Février 8, 2024, 8:23 UTC](https://community.brevo.com/t/brevo-transactional-emails-simple-smtp-relay-forces-content-type-of-text-html/672/4 "2024-02-08T08:23:58Z")

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You’re welcome!  
In order to pick the third option you’d need to send both `htmlContent` and `textContent` parameters in your API call (more details in [this article](https://developers.brevo.com/docs/send-a-transactional-email)).

Did I get your question well?