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- RFC 1524:
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- Title: A User Agent Configuration Mechanism
- For Multimedia Mail Format Information
- Author: N. Borenstein
- Mailbox: nsb@bellcore.com
- Pages: 12
- Characters: 26,464
- Updates/Obsoletes: none
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- This memo suggests a file format to be used to inform multiple mail
- reading user agent programs about the locally-installed facilities for
- handling mail in various formats. The mechanism is explicitly
- designed to work with mail systems based Internet mail as defined by
- RFC's 821 (STD 10), 822 (STD 11), 934, 1049 (STD 11), 1113, and the
- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, known as MIME. However, with
- some extensions it could probably be made to work for X.400-based mail
- systems as well. The format and mechanism are proposed in a manner
- that is generally operating-system independent. However, certain
- implementation details will inevitably reflect operating system
- differences, some of which will have to be handled in a uniform manner
- for each operating system. This memo makes such situations explicit,
- and, in an appendix, suggests a standard behavior under the UNIX
- operating system.
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