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- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.150252.11230@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 15:02:52 GMT
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- In article <C0MoKr.5wn@poel.juice.or.jp> erik@poel.juice.or.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) writes:
- >Anyway, since the number of programs that strip MIME headers is small,
- >it will be easy to get them updated and re-installed.
-
- The number of programs that strip MIME headers is _not_ small.
- Because mail is particularly amenable to gatewaying, there is far less
- incentive to upgrade every single user agent. The mailer I use every day
- doesn't use SMTP; it sends to an Internet gateway, but there is no way
- to get that gateway to lift MIME headers out of the message text into
- the real header. Yes, there are draft recommendations for X.400/SMTP
- gatewaying, but guess what, my mailer doesn't use X.400 either.
-
- And many non-mail programs only use "files" rather than "text PLUS headers".
- Perhaps the MIME people see MIME only as a temporary solution for
- TCP/IP mailers, which would be rather sad. Surely it doesn't take much
- imagination to see it as a much more usable alternative to ODA?
-