Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers

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From: Keith Moore
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 21:14

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In article <1993Jan7.191810.1857@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
> 
> Is there any convention for transmitting MIME messages if extra
> mail headers (Content-Type etc.) cannot be used for one reason or
> another?  Do any mailers understand messages whose first (text) line
> begins "MIME-Version..." or something?

There is a proposal for using a MIME-like syntax to extend the kinds
of body parts that can appear in X.400(84) messages that does
something like what you suggest...if a body part of a particular type
begins with "MIME-Version:", the body part is assumed to be in MIME
format.  The application of this proposal is supposed to be limited to
gatewaying X.400(88) messages to X.400(84) messages, though it could
be used for RFC 822-to-X.400(84) gatewaying as well.

The current version of this proposal is in the file
internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mimemhs-harpoon-00.txt, available from your
favorite internet drafts repository (nnsc.nsf.net is one).  Please
note that the proposal is still under development.

Similar conventions might be useful for other non-Internet mail systems.

But there isn't any such convention for RFC 822 messages in general,
nor should there be.
--
Keith Moore / U.Tenn CS Dept / 107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN  37996-1301
Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu      BITNET: moore@utkvx
Let's stamp out ASN.1 in our lifetime.

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