At 10:51 AM 10/28/94, Rick Troth wrote:
Help me out, Steve. I've deleted a bunch of mail,
so I might have missed something. To transfer agents now act upon the
Content-Type? The whole reason why MIME was created was (I thought)
to save ourselves from the evils that the transfer agents might do.
*Someone* must act on the content-type, be it MUA or MTA.
If you have an MTA that accepts RFC 1521 mail on one side and produces
something else on the other, then I think, to work properly, that MTA must
understand MIME content-types.
PMDF is an MTA. PMDF understands content-types and does the appropriate
transformations (right, Ned?).
Actually, PMDF includes MTA, gateway, and user agent capabilities. The
MTA part doesn't know about content types and doesn't care.
Ned