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- From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.201921.17081@twg.com>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:24:28 GMT
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- > Is there any convention for transmitting MIME messages if extra
- > mail headers (Content-Type etc.) cannot be used for one reason or
- > another? Do any mailers understand messages whose first (text) line
- > begins "MIME-Version..." or something?
-
- Eek!
-
- "No".
-
- MIME subsumes/defines the meaning of messages without Content-Type: to mean
- that they contain US-ASCII. So you'd be breaking the spec's to transport
- things which weren't US-ASCII-clean ... (naughty, naughty)
-
- I don't understand how you wouldn't be able to insert Content-Type:'s
- into the header..?
-
- David
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