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Re: MASS Proposals Comparison Matrix

2005-07-18 13:28:13

On July 18, 2005 at 09:56, "william(at)elan.net" wrote:

What systems will mime rearrangement be most problematic?

IBM Lotus and Sun SMTP server are reported to sometimes do it (possibly with
some external software). More often you may see it with mail list processing,
there its usually not rearrangement directly but encapsulation of message 
parts in a new mime part which would now be "root" - this is to deal with 
S/MIME and PGP/MIME signatures and it has the same effect on signature as 
rearrangement.

I think AOL may do some funny stuff with incoming MIME messages.
Maybe someone more familiar with how they do things can elaborate,
assuming it is relevent.

It is invisible in most MUAs (its supposed to if MUA follows MIME specs).
MIME says that unknown Multipart types are supposed to be ignored and 
MTA Signatures takes advantage of that and puts its signature in
Multipart/Postal-data message part.

I thought unknown multipart types were to be treated as
mulitpart/mixed.

--ewh


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