Re: MIME implementation documentation

Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com> Fri, 16 August 1996 14:56 UTC

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From: Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com>
To: John C Klensin <klensin@mail1.reston.mci.net>
Cc: 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
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On 8/16/96 at 4:47 AM -0500, John C Klensin wrote:

>On Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:01:25 -0700  Dave Crocker
><dcrocker@brandenburg.com> wrote:
>> 	Yes, we need to audit functions not implemented and remove them
>> from the spec.  do you have any candidates for removal?
>
>Just a hunch, based on MUAs I've looked at recently, but
>   multipart/alternative
>and
>   multipart/parallel
>are good starters.  The only creation-implementations I know of
>either require either hand-fussing (e.g., editing
>proto-outgoing-messages from /mixed) or specialized assembly
>macros that are not what we normally consider MUAs (e.g., the
>process used to prepare the I-D announcements).

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.

I have, to date, never seen a multipart/parallel message.

pr

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