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Article #100Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
From: Alasdair Grant
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:02
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:02
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In article <C0MoKr.5wn@poel.juice.or.jp> erik@poel.juice.or.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) writes: >Anyway, since the number of programs that strip MIME headers is small, >it will be easy to get them updated and re-installed. The number of programs that strip MIME headers is _not_ small. Because mail is particularly amenable to gatewaying, there is far less incentive to upgrade every single user agent. The mailer I use every day doesn't use SMTP; it sends to an Internet gateway, but there is no way to get that gateway to lift MIME headers out of the message text into the real header. Yes, there are draft recommendations for X.400/SMTP gatewaying, but guess what, my mailer doesn't use X.400 either. And many non-mail programs only use "files" rather than "text PLUS headers". Perhaps the MIME people see MIME only as a temporary solution for TCP/IP mailers, which would be rather sad. Surely it doesn't take much imagination to see it as a much more usable alternative to ODA?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!ucivax!news.service.uci.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!uknet!pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!ag129 From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers Message-ID: <1993Jan10.150252.11230@infodev.cam.ac.uk> Date: 10 Jan 93 15:02:52 GMT References: <C0MoKr.5wn@poel.juice.or.jp> Sender: news@infodev.cam.ac.uk (USENET news) Organization: U of Cambridge, England Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk