re "1/": That's a setting in your SMTP mail server, nothing to do with Community Builder.
re "2/": iirc if you select to send mails in HTML format (where available), they are sent multipart (although that's getting less and less useful imho).
1/ ok, I will check my settings with my hoster
2/ ok, but strange... as I receive emails only in HTML type... (in the header : Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-
My emails are sent with PHPmail (not SMTP).
CB settings are on HTML format, with a language string, so my messages (french and english) are located in HTML in the languages files.