[49807] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Wed Jul 10 12:32:55 2002
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:31:45 -0500
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: Email@merit.edu, List@merit.edu:nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
on 7/10/2002 10:53 AM Leo Bicknell wrote:
> More to the point, if anyone bothered to look at a MIME/PGP message,
> that's all it is. Specifically, you'll see two parts:
>
> ] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> ] Content-Disposition: inline
> ] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> ] Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
> ] Content-Disposition: inline
There's also the multipart/signed parent container. Of course, RFC2046
says that UNKNOWN MEDIA-TYPES are to be treated as multipart/mixed:
| 5.1.7. Other Multipart Subtypes
|
| Other "multipart" subtypes are expected in the future. MIME
| implementations must in general treat unrecognized subtypes of
| "multipart" as being equivalent to "multipart/mixed".
A mailer which displays the embedded text as attachments is going out of
its way to be incompatible with the spec.
--
Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
