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Re: The sad state of MIME non-compliance

2002-12-13 14:56:53
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 19:00, Bruce Lilly wrote:

multipart/mixed
    text/plain (introductory text)
    multipart/alternative
       multipart/related
          text/plain (page 1 text)
          text/plain (page 2 text)
       multipart/related
          application/pdf (page 1)
          application/pdf (page 2)

Sadly, many of the MUAs currently on the market fail to display
such a message properly.  Of course, non-MIME text-only UAs will
display the message body.  Kmail 1.4.3 seems to do a reasonable
job of displaying the message correctly.  But Netscape/Mozilla,
MS Outlook [Express], Eudora, and probably others do not. Most
of these display only the introductory text.

Just to add a data point: evolution (1.2) does fine, displaying the two
pdf files (and not displaying the two text parts).

cheers
-- vbi

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