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Excerpts from internet.mmm-people: 28-Mar-91 Re: Multiple Binary
Attachm.. Phil Fernandez@apple.com (1073)

> In article <40567@cup.portal.com> Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) writes:
> >Have there been any attempts to define a standard for the transmission
> >of multiple binary files inside of an RFC-822 envelope?  Is there 

> >anything about RFC-822 that makes this impossible?  It seems to me that
> >this capability is going to become very important to companies who
> >want to make use of cheap TCP/IP internets and SMTP as the backbone
> >for their email networks.

> At Metaphor we have done a fair amount of thought-work on this issue,
> and have built an effective working prototype for the transmission of
> multiple binary attachments in an RFC-822 message transmitted via
> SMTP.

Actually, there have been DOZENS of prototypes.  A lot of the people and
organizations who have built such prototypes are now trying, via the
IETF-SMTP mailing list, to converge on a standard way of representing
multiple body parts.  We're currently working towards a third version of
a draft RFC, which will (with luck) be posted to the list next week.

-- Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@thumper.bellcore.com>