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Does anybody know if Sun have any plans to make their Multimedia Mail
(as implemented in the mailtool in OpenWindows 3 ?) MIME compliant?

I sometimes get mail messages with lines like:

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X-Sun-Data-Type: text
X-Sun-Data-Description: text
X-Sun-Data-Name: text
X-Sun-Content-Lines: 4

in them, which I guess come from Sun Multimedia Mail, which my MIME
mail reader just treats as "normal" text (fair enough, there's no
Mime-Version: header field).

It seems that there wouldn't be too much work to change the way the
mailtool attaches messages (create a good boundary for a multipart
message change the X-Sun fields to the appropriate MIME fields and use
one of the encoding schemes specified in RFC 1341).

MIME already specifies content types for text / multipart / application /
message / image / audio / video, and the only "benefit" Multimedia
Mail seems to have is that it compresses data sometimes, but on
efficient data formats such as JPEG and MPEG how much does compression
affect the file size?

Were Sun to make Multimedia Mail to embrace MIME then they might want
to put a richtext editor into the mailtool so that people don't have
to resort to feature stuffed (expensive) editors to create postscript
just to unerline or embolden a few words...

So, is anyone (inside or outside Sun) doing anything like this, or
even thinking about it?  I'd like to know...

Mike
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