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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!kankkune
- From: kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen)
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.181237.20866@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science
- References: <1993Jan11.001838.13304@lut.ac.uk> <1ise90INN7qk@nigel.msen.com> <1993Jan11.194116.9569@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:12:37 GMT
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- >>Would it not be simpler and more expedient to work on the wone
- >>gateway that doesn't know how to handle MIME headers right, than
- >>to hack up 100 MIME-ready clients to implement some nonstandard
- >>options?
- >
- >I will say for the last time (applause) that this is not a problem with
- >gateways, but with mail _domains_. Some domains simply don't allow for
- >headers other than a selected few.
-
- I think, that if you have to use that kind of a method inside your mail
- domain (i.e. put the MIME and other extra headers in the body itself),
- the gateway to Internet (if your domain is connected) should do the
- transformation between that format and the pure MIME format. That is, it
- is important that the messages in your special format don't escape to
- Internet to cause confusion. Otherwise it should be up to you what you
- do privatly inside your domain.
-
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