Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 14:58:49 -0500
From: James M Galvin <galvin(_at_)tis(_dot_)com>
In summary, email without MIME or PEM functions best when an originator
and recipient have an a prior relationship and can establish an adhoc
protocol for exchanging non-textual data and sometimes textual data.
MIME provides a framework that allows an originator to label the data
such that a recipient can make an informed decision as to whether to
process the data without any prior communication between the originator
and recipient. PEM "secures" the data exchanged between the originator
and recipient. When encrypting text-only MIME contents, an originator
must fall back to the baseline email environment of assessing a
recipient's environment prior to sending the content, although a better
solution would be for an originator's user agent to assist in making
this decision.
Jim,
I'm missing something. Kazu's original question was about
CR/LF/CRLF text canonnicalization. MIME deals with this correctly, yes?
Is what you're saying is that MIME/PEM does not, and that's a feature?
If that's what you're saying, that seems really broken to me.....
- Ted