Re: this seems to have become broken some time back

Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> Wed, 19 January 2011 02:09 UTC

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On 2011-01-18, at 15:03, bill manning wrote:

> and I guess I am the only one who might still use it - but regardless, if its broken, it should ....  seems that the mail attachment (MIME) is no longer a copy of the draft in question, its a dummy text block.

I don't think it was ever a copy of the draft in question; it has been an RFC1873-compliant Message/External-Body section as long as I have been watching. To draw from another random example that came through recently on i-d-announce:

> Content-Type: Message/External-body;
> 	name="draft-ietf-idr-bgp-identifier-13.txt"; site="ftp.ietf.org";
> 	access-type="anon-ftp"; directory="internet-drafts"

I've never used a mail client that knows what to do with that, though.


Joe