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MIME part header (was: SMTP headers)

2006-09-14 10:59:51

PDeRochambeau(_at_)iht(_dot_)com wrote:

I have noticed that the former sends "attachment" headers
which don't contain the attachments' contents :
 
...
--------14507F4DC80F4D6511158149340B40B01
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Content-Type: Text/Plain

--------14507F4DC80F4D6511158149340B40B01
...

Sounds like a bug, for starters there should be no empty line
before the Content-Type.  

--------14507F4DC80F4D6511158149340B40B01
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Content-Type: Text/Plain

This is the contents of the file
--------14507F4DC80F4D6511158149340B40B01

Same issue here, but you said it works for you, so maybe the
bogus empty line is a problem with your UA.
 
Does anyone know how to force RTEs or MTAs such as sendmail
to send "attachment" headers of the second kind?

For a plain text US-ASCII part you generally need no header
fields at all (for the default inline disposition).  As you
said you want it as attachment, the minimal header would be:

--------14507F4DC80F4D6511158149340B40B01
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test.txt"
 
This is the contents of the file
--------14507F4DC80F4D6511158149340B40B01
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="verbose.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
 
This is another file after a more verbose header
--------14507F4DC80F4D6511158149340B40B01

Frank


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