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Re: Mime-Version in message/rfc822 encapsulated messages

1993-08-09 16:16:48
hansen(_at_)pegasus(_dot_)att(_dot_)com (t.l.hansen) writes:
Thus it follows that if the
message/rfc822 part has a Mime-Version header, treat the part as a mime
message. Otherwise, you cannot.

John Gardiner Myers wrote:
There is certainly debate on this topic

John Gardiner Myers wrote:
In fact, a strict reading of the minimal conformance rules
gives a minimally conformant reader no leeway to ignore a Content-Type:
or Content-Transfer-Encoding: header, even if there is no
MIME-Version.

Many people would say that the middle quote applies equally to both the
first and the last.  :-)

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