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Re: [ietf-822] message/partial - is it still a thing?

Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> Thu, 21 February 2019 18:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-822] message/partial - is it still a thing?
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valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu writes:

> Does any software out there still do message/partial?  We've discovered
> that both the line-mode nmh package and the exmh GUI claim support but
> are in fact broken.

> Is anything else out there able to do it, or is it time to heave it over
> the side?

Gnus supports both sending and decoding it, and will automatically send
messages as message/partial if the size of the message is above a
configurable threshold.  I've personally disabled that, though, since I've
never had a recipient be able to deal with a message/partial message I
sent them.

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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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