Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 16-Mar-93 Re: MacMIME - Proposed stan..
Patrik F{ltstr|m(_at_)nada(_dot_)kt (919)
Don't you get problems when decoding the multipart message then?
(I might be too "locked" with the functionality of Metamail)
I may be a littllle bit to blame here because I haven't yet responded to
Patrik's queries about how to do the multipart/appledouble stuff with
metamail. I think that this can be done, though. I think that a
metamail handler for it could parse the parts and put them into /tmp
files, and set an enviornment variable that told where they could be
found. (It could be done more efficiently, of course, if metamail had
knowledge of the key multipart/header-set type built in.) In other
owrds, I don't think this is a problem; we could arrange it so that when
the handler for application/applefile was called, there would be an
environment variable set (or perhaps some other mechanism) that listed
the parts that have been squirreled away already.
In short, I think the model can be made to work with metamail. -- NB