On July 20, 2005 at 10:55, Thomas Roessler wrote:
The term "message attachment" is meaningless in a MIME context;
the sentence should be stricken.
(Note that attachments imply the existence of a single top-level
multipart/something MIME body, and that's already covered by the
previous sentence of the spec.)
Not necessarily. I agree that the term "message attachment" is
ill-defined in email, but the existence of an attachment does not
have to imply multipart. An example is the use of Content-Disposition
which clearly allows one to specify a body part as an attachment.
Therefore, I could have the following:
To: thomas(_at_)example(_dot_)com
From: percy(_at_)example(_dot_)com
Subject: Her is that image I told you about
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="image.jpg"
...
Basically, the main message body is an attachment.
--ewh