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mhn (part of the mh 6.8 distribution) generates a "table of contents"
when you scan a message or folder.  In is straight forward for a mail
reader to generate such a table from the body of a MIME message.  The
following is a sample table output from mhn:

% mhn -list 9 +meta-mail
 msg part  type/subtype              size description                         
   9       multipart/alternative     8975
     1     multipart/mixed           5334
     1.1   text/richtext             2914
     1.2   message/external-body       30 The 2.4.CHANGES file                
           text/plain                    
     1.3   text/richtext               10
     1.4   message/external-body       64 The core tar file (mm2.4.tar.Z)     
           application/octet-stream      
     1.5   text/richtext               10
     1.6   message/external-body       69 The contrib tar file (contrib2.4.tar
           application/octet-stream      
     1.7   text/richtext               10
     1.8   message/external-body       65 The DOS tar file (dos2.4.tar.Z)     
           application/octet-stream      
     1.9   text/richtext               10
     1.10  message/external-body       65 The Amiga tar file (amiga2.4.tar)   
           application/octet-stream      
     1.11  text/richtext                5
     2     text/plain                3233

I am sure that other MIME mail readers are probably capable of
something similar.  Just because you don't have a table of contents in
the message body doesn't mean that you can't generate one.

---Jack

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