Re: Apple Mail and MIME attachment problems

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From: Piet van Oostrum
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:05

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>>>>> newsspam5REMOVETHIS@robf.de (R) wrote:

>R> Something which is a bit odd about your example: the attachment
>R> is on the same level as the HTML part, which means you will not
>R> see it if VM decides to present the PLAIN TEXT part.  But still
>R> you should see it if you press "D" once, i.e. you should get
>R> buttons for each mime part.

Yes, that is how Apple mail sends attachments. It uses the following
structure:

multipart/alternative
  text/plain
  multipart/mixed
    text/html
    attachments

whereas I think the sensible way would be:

multipart/mixed
  multipart/alternative
    text/plain
    text/html
  attachments

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Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
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From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
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Subject: Re: Apple Mail and MIME attachment problems
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:05:57 +0100
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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