I hope the message/partial type to be more ROBUST against some ill
mannered MTAs and MUAs which automatically insert something before
or after a message body.
For example, I know a mail-list handler and a mail-to-news gateway,
which insert additional information at beginning of bodies of resent
messages. And "Inews" appends ".signature" file at the end of
article body.
Can I save partical messages from such destructions ?
If there is no way to do so, I wish some extension to be added to
the spec. of message/partial, or need new content type like
"MESSAGE/ROBUST-PARTIAL" to be introduced. I think the most
naive solution is introducing "boundary" parameter to the partial
message, and wrap up the message body with the defined boundary.
(Such MTAs/MUAs are also harmful to all of basic content-types like
audio and image, but they can be saved by enclosing them in a
multipart message.)
Yutaka
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