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Douglas Gray Stephens wrote:
 > I'm subscribed to the ActiveState perl-win32-users bulletin board
 >  http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
 > and I think that they changed the MIME format earlier this year, so that
 > the
 >  multipart/digest
 > now has a
 >  message/rfc822
 > MIME header before each message.  This is causing VM not to show the
 > correct summary for the digest, and each message in the digest is
 > treated as having a message/digest attachment, which must be opened.
 >
 > Looking at the RFCs (
 >  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt
 > ), it appears that this MIME format may be valid:
 >   If no Content-Type field is present it is assumed to be
 >   "message/rfc822" in a "multipart/digest" and "text/plain"
 >   otherwise.

I thought the presence of the blank line between the boundary and the
individual message headers might be a problem, since the first 2
paragraphs of section 5.1 of the RFC say that a blank line separates
the boundary from the body -- which would mean the headers were part
of the entity and not information for the MIME processor about the
entity.  But I sent myself a test multipart/digest with VM, and it
also puts a blank line between each boundary and the following message
headers.

That digest displayed fine, so I edited it to change the individual
Content-Type headers from text/plain to message/rfc822.  Here's where
it gets interesting: some messages still displayed as before, but some
displayed as you describe.  When I looked closer, the messages that
displayed normally also had "Content-Disposition: inline" headers.  I
usually have vm-honor-mime-content-disposition set to t, but when I
set it to nil it caused all the messages to be displayed abnormally.

 > Is there a switch in VM to enable it to support this type of MIME
 > message?

No, something needs to be tweaked in the code so that the messages
burst from a multipart/digest into a folder for display are handled
the same regardless of the individual Content-Type headers.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers