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MIME messages without MIME-Version header

1998-09-22 10:49:57
How to handle MIME (-like) messages without the MIME-version header field ?

What do IMAP servers typically do in this case ? I believe the UW server
considers it non-mime and returns it as a singlepart message (not sure).

Unfortunately HotMail sends out such messages - they look very much like MIME
messages with boundaries and mime headers and all, but they forgot to stick
in the MIME-Version header; they also use uuencode to encode binary data. Yuk.
(If the right folks are listening .. please fix this and spare us 
client-writers some pain)

-john