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- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
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- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.122232.17867@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 12:22:32 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.001838.13304@lut.ac.uk> M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk ([*] M.T.Hamilton) writes:
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- > ###MIME headers follow###
- > Content-Type: text/richtext
-
- Yes, this is precisely the sort of thing I meant. Except that '#' is
- probably not a good character to use - see RFC 1341 Appendix B.
- If a tag is thought necessary, I suggest
-
- .)MIME
-
- but perhaps a better scheme would be:
-
- The message (or file) is scanned until the end, or the first line that
- doesn't start with one of the five text strings used to represent MIME
- "headers" in RFC 1341. If a MIME-Version "header" is found, the file
- is considered to contain MIME; any detected MIME headers are removed from
- the content of the file as used by the application.
-
- The remaining problem is with "Received:" headers, which have a habit of
- being moved to message texts by gateways sending to non-RFC822 domains.
- But then MUAs can do ad hoc processing (perhaps removing them altogether
- or creating a new MIME text body part to contain them); this problem will
- not be present in non-message-transfer applications.
-