Re: MIME implementation documentation

Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@innosoft.com> Fri, 16 August 1996 22:21 UTC

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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 15:10:43 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@innosoft.com>
To: John C Klensin <klensin@mail1.reston.mci.net>
Cc: Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com>, Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>, Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@innosoft.com>, ietf-822@list.cren.net, Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
Subject: Re: MIME implementation documentation
In-Reply-To: "Your message dated Fri, 16 Aug 1996 13:38:23 -0400 (EDT)" <SIMEON.9608161323.A@muahost.mail1.reston.mci.net>
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> > Just to name names: I know that Cyberdog on the Macintosh and Microsoft's
> > new mail and news offering (the latter for which I don't know the release
> > status) both produce multipart/alternative by default (without "by-hand"
> > user manipulation) for certain types of messages.

Sheesh, now that you mention it, there's another MUA that does this too --
Ishmail. I completely forgot about it.

So that's three MUAs producing multipart/alternative.

> Well, that is considerable progress, although it would be nice
> to know
>   -- what types of messages
> and
>   -- what really acts on these on receipt, other than treating
> them as "mixed".

Ishmail also handles this on receipt. That makes three MUAs I know of,
Pine, Ishmail, and Metamail, that handle multipart/alternative.

				Ned

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