In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in
practice, there is.
- Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
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-----Original Message-----
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen [mailto:arnt(_at_)gulbrandsen(_dot_)priv(_dot_)no]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 01:32
To: Dan Kohn
Cc: Simon Josefsson; Jacob Palme; ietf-822(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: BOF: Format-Flowed and Non-Western Charsets
Dan Kohn <dan(_at_)dankohn(_dot_)com>
Further, see that the first NOTE on page 19 of RFC 2046 is what
enables
you (at least in theory) to have multiparts that are not broken by
CRLFs.
Yes. But, having an imapext archive handy, I looked at it now. The
x-mailer
fields from the first three messages that break the rule are:
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U)
X-Mailer: Mulberry (MacOS) [2.0.0b2, s/n S1-000001]
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; U)
The IMAP torture test message also breaks it - ther's a GIF image you
can't decode without the trailing CRLF.
I infer that a MUA can't assume that a missing CRFL at the end of a
body-part means anything.
--Arnt