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- From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Subject: re: Table of contents for a MIME note?
- Message-ID: <MS-C.728187159.377401575.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 10:12:39 GMT
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- Organization: University of Washington
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- To: William Chung <whchung@watson.ibm.com>
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan27.164758.15466@watson.ibm.com>
- MIME-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
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- IMAP2bis solves the problem by extending IMAP2 to transmit the MIME structure
- of messages. So, for remote mailboxes, you don't need to fetch the entire
- text of the message just to get its MIME structure.
-
- This was one of the things that caused a long debate in the MIME working
- group, with me having to fight tooth and nail to make sure that MIME didn't do
- things that would make the determination of MIME structure difficult (e.g. the
- prohibition of recursive encoding is due to my insistance).
-
- I don't think that having a separate structure index in the message itself is
- a good idea, because that introduces a new failure mode in which the actual
- message structure doesn't correspond to its index. We're all better off
- making sure that it continued to be easy to parse MIME quickly.
-