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"Hans Galema" <notused@notused.nl> wrote in message
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> Do you mean the multipart/mixed with parts that
> themselves are multipart/alternative and so ?

Yes.  Message parts can be nested several levels deep, and even contain
other embedded messages that have their own parts.

> If you have an example of what you consider a complex email
> (.eml), could you please post it as attachment in the attachments group ?

You can read the following article for an example:

    HTML Messages
    http://www.indyproject.org/Sockets/Blogs/RLebeau/2005_08_17_A.en.iwp

> The most complex I can think of is a html mail with several
> attachments of files in different format.

Have you ever seen TNEF-encoded messages from MSOutlook?  The entire message
(including attachments) is encoded as a single binary attachment that is
then nested inside a multipart message.  When received, you have to parse
the MIME to get the TNEF attachment and then parse the binary data to
extract the original headers, body, and attachments.


Gambit