Charles Lindsey wrote:
OK, so you have no problem with
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="?-?-?-?"
where "?-?-?-?" is a placeholder for some filename in Hungarian, Arabic or
Chinese. Just so long as that usage is confined to Netnews, and is not
seen in Email except in the corresponding RFC 2231 form?
And, naturally, that usage will be seem in the body part headers of a
multipart/mixed (again within Netnews, not Email)? For that is precisely
where you would expect "attachments" to be found.
So I am allowed to reuse the existing media type multipart/mixed.
No, no, no. RFC 2046 section 5.1.1 (Common Syntax for multipart media
types) *clearly and unambiguously* states:
However, in no event are headers (either message
headers or body part headers) allowed to contain anything other than
US-ASCII characters.
By the way, could you *please* fix or replace the software which is generating
the illegal Date headers in your messages, e.g.
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 17:07:33 GMT
Non-numeric offsets have been in the "do not generate" category (see RFC 2822)
for more than 20 months.