At 20:47 -0600 02-06-19, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> I often embed pictures in e-mail.
MIME allows for this. Unfortunately most MUAs don't properly handle
the display of multipart MIME messages properly, making it almost
impossible to use the native MIME capabilities in this manner. If
we could educate MUA authors that "MIME section" != attachment we
could make a lot of progress towards reducing the gratuitous use
of HTML.
Yes, a series of body parts with Content-Disposition: Inline
could give a similar effect. But why is it better than HTML?
Few existing mailers give good support for producing a series
of body parts. You could of course try to get mail software
developers to support sending of a series of body parts
with Content-Disposition: Inline better. But will you succeed?
Another usage of a series of body parts, which I think would
be very natural, would be to include the message you are
replying to in one body part, and putting your reply in another
body part. But this, also, has not been accepted by the market.
--
Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/