diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4cb447386..a6635634c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3596,9 +3596,9 @@ checksum = "9106e1d747ffd48e6be5bb2d97fa706ed25b144fbee4d5c02eae110cd8d6badd"
[[package]]
name = "mailparse"
-version = "0.15.0"
+version = "0.16.0"
source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3da03d5980411a724e8aaf7b61a7b5e386ec55a7fb49ee3d0ff79efc7e5e7c7e"
+checksum = "cdd4a624f609f8ea7366324724b7ff41cb0f982eb665a54ac825bc1c0efc07a3"
dependencies = [
"charset",
"data-encoding",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a89efb1f0..e1efc2e64 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ iroh = { version = "0.32", default-features = false }
kamadak-exif = "0.6.1"
lettre_email = { git = "https://github.com/deltachat/lettre", branch = "master" }
libc = { workspace = true }
-mailparse = "0.15"
+mailparse = "0.16"
mime = "0.3.17"
num_cpus = "1.16"
num-derive = "0.4"
diff --git a/src/html.rs b/src/html.rs
index 1e5e5097c..7c26ffb47 100644
--- a/src/html.rs
+++ b/src/html.rs
@@ -371,7 +371,6 @@ and will be wrapped as usual.
mime-modified should not be set set as there is no html and no special stuff;
although not being a delta-message.
test some special html-characters as < > and & but also " and ' :)
-