[39603] in Cypherpunks
Re: MIME
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Horgan)
Wed Sep 20 12:31:29 1995
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:12:02 -0700
From: patrick@Verity.COM (Patrick Horgan)
To: tcmay@got.net, shields@tembel.org
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
> : Content-Type: application/pgp
> : Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> : Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
> : Precedence: bulk
> : Content-Length: 1092
>
> I think that it must be the content-type that is causing problems, as
> the rest of the message is completely standard. To the people whose
> mailers broke out in hives at that message: Do you get the same behavior
> with any message having an unknown content-type?
> --
> Shields.
>
I've only ever seen the problem with Content-Type: application/pgp using
Sun's mailtool. I don't know that I've ever gotten mail with unknown
Content-Type though...wait let me whip some up...
Mailtool assumes anything with a content type is an attachment. The
type is used as the name of the attachment. A Content-Type: of
application/foo or of just foo both yeild an attachment named foo.
Patrick
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