diff --git a/django/core/mail/message.py b/django/core/mail/message.py
index 205c680561..7eee5da8b8 100644
--- a/django/core/mail/message.py
+++ b/django/core/mail/message.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import mimetypes
+from collections import namedtuple
 from email import charset as Charset
 from email import encoders as Encoders
 from email import generator, message_from_string
@@ -190,6 +191,10 @@ class SafeMIMEMultipart(MIMEMixin, MIMEMultipart):
         MIMEMultipart.__setitem__(self, name, val)
 
 
+Alternative = namedtuple("Alternative", ["content", "mimetype"])
+EmailAttachment = namedtuple("Attachment", ["filename", "content", "mimetype"])
+
+
 class EmailMessage:
     """A container for email information."""
 
@@ -338,7 +343,7 @@ class EmailMessage:
                         # actually binary, read() raises a UnicodeDecodeError.
                         mimetype = DEFAULT_ATTACHMENT_MIME_TYPE
 
-            self.attachments.append((filename, content, mimetype))
+            self.attachments.append(EmailAttachment(filename, content, mimetype))
 
     def attach_file(self, path, mimetype=None):
         """
@@ -471,13 +476,15 @@ class EmailMultiAlternatives(EmailMessage):
             cc,
             reply_to,
         )
-        self.alternatives = alternatives or []
+        self.alternatives = [
+            Alternative(*alternative) for alternative in (alternatives or [])
+        ]
 
     def attach_alternative(self, content, mimetype):
         """Attach an alternative content representation."""
         if content is None or mimetype is None:
             raise ValueError("Both content and mimetype must be provided.")
-        self.alternatives.append((content, mimetype))
+        self.alternatives.append(Alternative(content, mimetype))
 
     def _create_message(self, msg):
         return self._create_attachments(self._create_alternatives(msg))
@@ -492,5 +499,9 @@ class EmailMultiAlternatives(EmailMessage):
             if self.body:
                 msg.attach(body_msg)
             for alternative in self.alternatives:
-                msg.attach(self._create_mime_attachment(*alternative))
+                msg.attach(
+                    self._create_mime_attachment(
+                        alternative.content, alternative.mimetype
+                    )
+                )
         return msg
diff --git a/docs/releases/5.2.txt b/docs/releases/5.2.txt
index e0f190076a..61101ce1fd 100644
--- a/docs/releases/5.2.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/5.2.txt
@@ -133,7 +133,15 @@ Decorators
 Email
 ~~~~~
 
-* ...
+* Tuple items of :class:`EmailMessage.attachments
+  <django.core.mail.EmailMessage>` and
+  :class:`EmailMultiAlternatives.attachments
+  <django.core.mail.EmailMultiAlternatives>` are now named tuples, as opposed
+  to regular tuples.
+
+* :attr:`EmailMultiAlternatives.alternatives
+  <django.core.mail.EmailMultiAlternatives.alternatives>` is now a list of
+  named tuples, as opposed to regular tuples.
 
 Error Reporting
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/docs/topics/email.txt b/docs/topics/email.txt
index 9b7b404ec1..1a283bdbb4 100644
--- a/docs/topics/email.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/email.txt
@@ -282,8 +282,13 @@ All parameters are optional and can be set at any time prior to calling the
   new connection is created when ``send()`` is called.
 
 * ``attachments``: A list of attachments to put on the message. These can
-  be either :class:`~email.mime.base.MIMEBase` instances, or ``(filename,
-  content, mimetype)`` triples.
+  be either :class:`~email.mime.base.MIMEBase` instances, or a named tuple
+  with attributes ``(filename, content, mimetype)``.
+
+  .. versionchanged:: 5.2
+
+    In older versions, tuple items of ``attachments`` were regular tuples,
+    as opposed to named tuples.
 
 * ``headers``: A dictionary of extra headers to put on the message. The
   keys are the header name, values are the header values. It's up to the
@@ -392,10 +397,10 @@ Django's email library, you can do this using the
 
 .. class:: EmailMultiAlternatives
 
-    A subclass of :class:`~django.core.mail.EmailMessage` that has an
-    additional ``attach_alternative()`` method for including extra versions of
-    the message body in the email. All the other methods (including the class
-    initialization) are inherited directly from
+    A subclass of :class:`~django.core.mail.EmailMessage` that allows
+    additional versions of the message body in the email via the
+    ``attach_alternative()`` method. This directly inherits all methods
+    (including the class initialization) from
     :class:`~django.core.mail.EmailMessage`.
 
     .. method:: attach_alternative(content, mimetype)
@@ -415,6 +420,24 @@ Django's email library, you can do this using the
             msg.attach_alternative(html_content, "text/html")
             msg.send()
 
+    .. attribute:: alternatives
+
+        A list of named tuples with attributes ``(content, mimetype)``. This is
+        particularly useful in tests::
+
+            self.assertEqual(len(msg.alternatives), 1)
+            self.assertEqual(msg.alternatives[0].content, html_content)
+            self.assertEqual(msg.alternatives[0].mimetype, "text/html")
+
+        Alternatives should only be added using the
+        :meth:`~django.core.mail.EmailMultiAlternatives.attach_alternative`
+        method.
+
+        .. versionchanged:: 5.2
+
+            In older versions, ``alternatives`` was a list of regular tuples, as opposed
+            to named tuples.
+
 Updating the default content type
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/tests/logging_tests/tests.py b/tests/logging_tests/tests.py
index 610bdc1124..e58109fb78 100644
--- a/tests/logging_tests/tests.py
+++ b/tests/logging_tests/tests.py
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ class AdminEmailHandlerTest(SimpleTestCase):
         msg = mail.outbox[0]
         self.assertEqual(msg.subject, "[Django] ERROR: message")
         self.assertEqual(len(msg.alternatives), 1)
-        body_html = str(msg.alternatives[0][0])
+        body_html = str(msg.alternatives[0].content)
         self.assertIn('<div id="traceback">', body_html)
         self.assertNotIn("<form", body_html)
 
diff --git a/tests/mail/tests.py b/tests/mail/tests.py
index 4db752df59..3746ede338 100644
--- a/tests/mail/tests.py
+++ b/tests/mail/tests.py
@@ -550,6 +550,18 @@ class MailTests(HeadersCheckMixin, SimpleTestCase):
         msg.attach("example.txt", "Text file content", "text/plain")
         self.assertIn(html_content, msg.message().as_string())
 
+    def test_alternatives(self):
+        msg = EmailMultiAlternatives()
+        html_content = "<p>This is <strong>html</strong></p>"
+        mime_type = "text/html"
+        msg.attach_alternative(html_content, mime_type)
+
+        self.assertEqual(msg.alternatives[0][0], html_content)
+        self.assertEqual(msg.alternatives[0].content, html_content)
+
+        self.assertEqual(msg.alternatives[0][1], mime_type)
+        self.assertEqual(msg.alternatives[0].mimetype, mime_type)
+
     def test_none_body(self):
         msg = EmailMessage("subject", None, "from@example.com", ["to@example.com"])
         self.assertEqual(msg.body, "")
@@ -626,6 +638,22 @@ class MailTests(HeadersCheckMixin, SimpleTestCase):
         )
 
     def test_attachments(self):
+        msg = EmailMessage()
+        file_name = "example.txt"
+        file_content = "Text file content"
+        mime_type = "text/plain"
+        msg.attach(file_name, file_content, mime_type)
+
+        self.assertEqual(msg.attachments[0][0], file_name)
+        self.assertEqual(msg.attachments[0].filename, file_name)
+
+        self.assertEqual(msg.attachments[0][1], file_content)
+        self.assertEqual(msg.attachments[0].content, file_content)
+
+        self.assertEqual(msg.attachments[0][2], mime_type)
+        self.assertEqual(msg.attachments[0].mimetype, mime_type)
+
+    def test_decoded_attachments(self):
         """Regression test for #9367"""
         headers = {"Date": "Fri, 09 Nov 2001 01:08:47 -0000", "Message-ID": "foo"}
         subject, from_email, to = "hello", "from@example.com", "to@example.com"
@@ -645,14 +673,14 @@ class MailTests(HeadersCheckMixin, SimpleTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(payload[0].get_content_type(), "multipart/alternative")
         self.assertEqual(payload[1].get_content_type(), "application/pdf")
 
-    def test_attachments_two_tuple(self):
+    def test_decoded_attachments_two_tuple(self):
         msg = EmailMessage(attachments=[("filename1", "content1")])
         filename, content, mimetype = self.get_decoded_attachments(msg)[0]
         self.assertEqual(filename, "filename1")
         self.assertEqual(content, b"content1")
         self.assertEqual(mimetype, "application/octet-stream")
 
-    def test_attachments_MIMEText(self):
+    def test_decoded_attachments_MIMEText(self):
         txt = MIMEText("content1")
         msg = EmailMessage(attachments=[txt])
         payload = msg.message().get_payload()
diff --git a/tests/view_tests/tests/test_debug.py b/tests/view_tests/tests/test_debug.py
index 45a0dc70ee..9383c0d873 100644
--- a/tests/view_tests/tests/test_debug.py
+++ b/tests/view_tests/tests/test_debug.py
@@ -1463,7 +1463,7 @@ class ExceptionReportTestMixin:
             self.assertNotIn("worcestershire", body_plain)
 
             # Frames vars are shown in html email reports.
-            body_html = str(email.alternatives[0][0])
+            body_html = str(email.alternatives[0].content)
             self.assertIn("cooked_eggs", body_html)
             self.assertIn("scrambled", body_html)
             self.assertIn("sauce", body_html)
@@ -1499,7 +1499,7 @@ class ExceptionReportTestMixin:
             self.assertNotIn("worcestershire", body_plain)
 
             # Frames vars are shown in html email reports.
-            body_html = str(email.alternatives[0][0])
+            body_html = str(email.alternatives[0].content)
             self.assertIn("cooked_eggs", body_html)
             self.assertIn("scrambled", body_html)
             self.assertIn("sauce", body_html)