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Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers

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From: Risto Kankkunen
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:12
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>>Would it not be simpler and more expedient to work on the wone
>>gateway that doesn't know how to handle MIME headers right, than
>>to hack up 100 MIME-ready clients to implement some nonstandard
>>options?
>
>I will say for the last time (applause) that this is not a problem with
>gateways, but with mail _domains_.  Some domains simply don't allow for
>headers other than a selected few.

I think, that if you have to use that kind of a method inside your mail
domain (i.e. put the MIME and other extra headers in the body itself),
the gateway to Internet (if your domain is connected) should do the
transformation between that format and the pure MIME format. That is, it
is important that the messages in your special format don't escape to
Internet to cause confusion. Otherwise it should be up to you what you
do privatly inside your domain.

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From: kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen)
Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
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Organization: University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science
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