Re: MIME boundary strings

Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> Thu, 22 August 2002 11:04 UTC

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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 13:02:57 +0200
To: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
Subject: Re: MIME boundary strings
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At 15:20 +0530 02-08-22, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
>c) pick some boundary string and make sure that one doesn't occur.

Do you mean by changing the content of the body part, if
necessary, making "invisible" changes so that the user sees
the same thing, for example by using QUOTED-PRINTABLE
"=[hexvalue]" for a character which normally does not need
to be hexcoded!
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Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
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