Re: MAIL WARS Part VI: The Revenge of X.400

> Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 18-Feb-93 MAIL WARS Part VI: The Reve.. Mark Crispin(_at_)cac(_dot_)washing (301*)


> There is an X.400 -> MIME gateway that sends headers like:
> 	Mime-Version: 1.0
> 	Content-Type:

Interesting pathological case.  Out of curiousity, I just tested both my implementations, metamail and Andrew, on a message like this.  The results:

1.  Metamail did this:

> This message contains data in an unrecognized format, ,
> which can either be viewed as text or written to a file.
>
> What do you want to do with the  data?
> 1 -- See it as text
> 2 -- Write it to a file
> 3 -- Just skip it

2.  Andrew just treated it as if it were "text/plain; charset=us-ascii", with no complaints or warnings.

Does anyone have any opinions on what behavior is preferred in this situation?  I suppose I ought to fix one of them to be consistent with the other....   -- Nathaniel