Re: [apps-discuss] Review of: draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail-03

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>This is going to take a lot more than three paragraphs to do properly. I'd
>suggest something like this (apologies in advance - this is *very* rough, but
>I'm in the middle of an office move and don't have time right now to wordsmith
>the text the way I normally would):

Way better than what I sent.

>But more to the point, lots of software, including metamail, the original MIME
>software, pays no attention to MIME-Version: at all. And the chances of this
>changes are, IMO, remote.

I use Alpine which is one of the very few MUAs that take Murray's
advice and ignore MIME headers if the MIME-Version is missing.  It is
a pain in the patoot, since it is invariably wrong.  I ended up using
procmail to add the missing header to mail from known screwups like
the NY Times so I could read it properly.

R's,
John