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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:

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

Yes. I have seen that. Take the part between two boundaries and handle
that recursive.

> You can read the following article for an example:
> 
>     HTML Messages
>     http://www.indyproject.org/Sockets/Blogs/RLebeau/2005_08_17_A.en.iwp

Looking a few minutes in it it gave already a lot of usefull info. As I am
in the process of decoding a mail in its parts a complex mail as example
would still be interesting.

> 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 

That is as usual then.

> and then parse the binary data to
> extract the original headers, body, and attachments.

No. I have never heard of TNEF. Such an .eml mail as example would be nice.
Is Outlook Express capable of sending such mails too ?

Will google for TNEF soon.

Thanks for the info.

Hans.