At 12:31 PM 7/28/1999 +0000, Peter Gutmann wrote:
In contrast putting it in CMS means
you automatically get it when you use CMS, so any new mailer which supports
CMS would also support compression.
Except that there are already many S/MIME and other CMS protocols out there
that will choke if they get this content type. I'm not saying it shouldn't
be done, just that you shouldn't send it out for any S/MIME v3 messages. It
would be good to have it in for other new CMS-using protocols, or for
future versions of S/MIME.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium