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- From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 21:14:19 GMT
- Organization: Univ. of Tenn. Computer Science, Knoxville
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- In article <1993Jan7.191810.1857@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
- >
- > 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?
-
- There is a proposal for using a MIME-like syntax to extend the kinds
- of body parts that can appear in X.400(84) messages that does
- something like what you suggest...if a body part of a particular type
- begins with "MIME-Version:", the body part is assumed to be in MIME
- format. The application of this proposal is supposed to be limited to
- gatewaying X.400(88) messages to X.400(84) messages, though it could
- be used for RFC 822-to-X.400(84) gatewaying as well.
-
- The current version of this proposal is in the file
- internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mimemhs-harpoon-00.txt, available from your
- favorite internet drafts repository (nnsc.nsf.net is one). Please
- note that the proposal is still under development.
-
- Similar conventions might be useful for other non-Internet mail systems.
-
- But there isn't any such convention for RFC 822 messages in general,
- nor should there be.
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- Keith Moore / U.Tenn CS Dept / 107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN 37996-1301
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- Let's stamp out ASN.1 in our lifetime.
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